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H3887 לוּץ (lûwts) loots
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede

KJV Usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

לִיץ (luts) — to mock. 1) to scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to boast 1a2) to scorn 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to mock, deride 1b2) to interpret (language) 1b2a) interpreter (participle) 1b2b) ambassador (fig.) 1c) (Hithpalpel) to be inflated, scoff, act as a scorner, show oneself a mocker Also means: la.tsats (לָצַץ "to scorn" H3945)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · לָצֹון · מְלִיצָה

Despise | verb qal ptc.act, verb pi ptc.act | ≈ הֹמֶה · חַטָּא · כְּסִיל · עָרִיץ · פֶּתִי · רָשָׁע | ≠ חכם · חָכָם · נָבֹון · עָנִי

insolent person = someone who shows contempt for other people and ideas

PSA 1:1 · PRO 1:22 · PRO 3:34 · PRO 9:7 · PRO 9:8 · PRO 9:12 · PRO 13:1 · PRO 14:6 · PRO 15:12 · PRO 19:25 · PRO 19:29 · PRO 20:1 · PRO 21:11 · PRO 21:24 · PRO 22:10 · PRO 24:9 · ISA 29:20 · HOS 7:5

Despise | verb hit

to behave arrogantly = to behave in an arrogant way

ISA 28:22

Despise | verb hif | ≠ נתן חֵן

to deride = to treat someone or something with insolence and contempt

PSA 119:51 · PRO 3:34 · PRO 14:9 · PRO 19:28

Change | verb hif | ≈ מַלְאָךְ · שַׂר קֹדֶשׁ

to act as a spokesman, to act as a mediator = to act as an intermediary for a party for communicating with another, physically or hierarchically remote, party

2CH 32:31 · JOB 16:20 · JOB 33:23 · ISA 43:27

Change | verb hif

to interpret = to translate orally from one language into another and vice versa

GEN 42:23

Theo van der Louw

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[לִיץ] vb. scorn Qal scorn

Hiph. deride

Pt. interpreter

Po‛lel scorners

Hithp. act as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker

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