King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3931
Transliteration: laab
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ab')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to jest
Meaning: to deride
Word Summary
laab: to jest
Original Word: לָעַבTransliteration: laab
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ab')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to jest
Meaning: to deride
Strong's Concordance
mock A primitive root; to deride -- mock.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3931. laab
[לָעַב] verb jest (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; לְעַב ᵑ7 Ethpa`al id.; Syriac Ethpa`al mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic play, sport, jest); — only
Hiph`il Participle בְּ מַלְעִבִים ׳וַיִּהְיוּ2 Chronicles 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God.