3931. laab

Lexicon

laab: To burn, to kindle

Original Word: לָעַב
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: la`ab
Pronunciation: lah-ab
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ab')
KJV: mock
NASB: mocked
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. to deride

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

mock

A primitive root; to deride -- mock.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a 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.

Forms and Transliterations

מַלְעִבִים֙ מלעבים mal‘iḇîm mal·‘i·ḇîm maliVim

Englishman'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

Strong's Hebrew 3931
1 Occurrence

mal·‘i·ḇîm — 1 Occ.