Words the Bible translates as deride
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- saḥaqשָׂחַקto laugh, and by extension to play, celebrate, or mock; the whole range of glad, playful, or scornful laughter.
- la'agלָעַגto mock: to treat someone with open, jeering contempt, usually with derisive laughter
+1 more meaning
- of a foreign tongue: to sound like unintelligible babble to the hearer
- diachleuazōδιαχλευάζωto deridenot studied yet
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