Strong’s H3932 · Hebrew
לָעַג
lâʻag · law-ag'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
In the King James Version have in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.
In 18 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
- 2 Chronicles 30:10So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 4:1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
- Job 9:23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- Job 11:3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 21:3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- Job 22:19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
- Psalms 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
- Psalms 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- Psalms 59:8But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
- Psalms 80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
- Proverbs 1:26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- Proverbs 17:5Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
- Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
- Isaiah 33:19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
- Isaiah 37:22This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
- Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.