Strong's Lexicon laab: To burn, to kindle Original Word: לָאַב NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definition to jest NASB Translation mocked (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs [לָעַב] verb jest (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; ᵑ7 לְעַב Ethpa`al id.; Syriac Ethpa`al mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic play, sport, jest); — only Hiph`il Participle ׳וַיִּהְיוּ מַלְעִבִים בְּ2Chronicles 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance mock A primitive root; to deride -- mock. Forms and Transliterations מַלְעִבִים֙ מלעבים mal‘iḇîm mal·‘i·ḇîm maliVimLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance 2 Chronicles 36:16 HEB: וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ מַלְעִבִים֙ בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים NAS: but they [continually] mocked the messengers KJV: But they mocked the messengers of God, INT: become they mocked the messengers of God 1 Occurrence |