H3887 לוּץ
lûwts — properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
KJV: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Occurs 27 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [לִיץ] vb. scorn
- Qal scorn
- Hiph.
- 1 deride
- 2 Pt. interpreter
- Po‛lel scorners
- Hithp. act as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker
Where it occurs
- Genesis 42:23 — They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
- Isaiah 28:22 — Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the…
- Isaiah 29:20 — For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
- Isaiah 43:27 — Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
- Psalms 1:1 — Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat…
- Psalms 119:51 — The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your Torah.
- Proverbs 1:22 — “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools…
- Proverbs 3:34 — Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
- Proverbs 9:7 — One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
- Proverbs 9:8 — Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.