Words the Bible translates as mock
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 14 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- oneidizōὀνειδίζωto reproach: to throw a person's fault, real or alleged, in their face with words that shame them in front of others.
- empaizōἐμπαίζωto mock: to make sport of someone, treating them with scorn as an object of ridicule
- ḥaraphחָרַףto throw shaming words at someone, daring or despising them: to taunt, mock, or defy
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- to spend the cold season: to stay somewhere through the rainy winter months
- to be assigned or promised to a man: said of a slave woman set aside for a particular man
- saḥaqשָׂחַקto laugh, and by extension to play, celebrate, or mock; the whole range of glad, playful, or scornful laughter.
- lutsלִיץto mock with proud contempt; a scoffer who sneers at correction
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- to mediate through speech; a go-between who carries words across a gap: an interpreter, envoy, or advocate
- katagelaōκαταγελάωto laugh at someone with scorn; to jeer at, deride, or ridicule
- alalעָלַלto work one's will on a person: to deal harshly with them, to make sport of or abuse them
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- to glean: to go back over a harvested vine or field and strip off what remains
- to thrust or lay something in the dust, or to defile it there (used only of Job and his horn)
- la'agלָעַגto mock: to treat someone with open, jeering contempt, usually with derisive laughter
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- of a foreign tongue: to sound like unintelligible babble to the hearer
- muktērizōμυκτηρίζωto mocknot studied yet
- tsaḥaqצָחַקto make sport: to turn laughter into an activity, whether harmless play and joking, derisive mockery, or intimate caressing
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- to laugh: the sudden, involuntary laugh that breaks out in wonder, joy, or disbelief
- talalתָּלַלto make a fool of someone: to treat a person as a dupe, whether by open ridicule or by lies and broken promises
- qalasקָלַסto mocknot studied yet
- ta'aתָּעַעto mocknot studied yet
- muqמוּקto mocknot studied yet
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