Mock; Mocker; Mocking
Mock; Mocker; Mocking [1]
mok , mok'ẽr , mok´ing ( הרל , hāthal , לעג , lā‛agh , ἐμπαίζω , empaı́zō ): To mock is the translation of hāthal , "to play upon," "mock," "deride" ( Judges 16:10 , Judges 16:13 , Judges 16:15; 1 Kings 18:27 , "Elijah mocked them"; Job 13:9 twice, the Revised Version (British and American) "deceiveth," "deceive," margin "mocketh," "mock"); of lā‛agh , "to stammer" or "babble in mimicry," "to mock" or "scorn" ( 2 Chronicles 30:10; Nehemiah 4:1; Job 11:3; Job 21:3; Proverbs 1:26; Proverbs 17:5; Proverbs 30:17; Jeremiah 20:7 ). Other words are cāḥaḳ , "to laugh," etc. ( Genesis 19:14; Genesis 21:9;, Genesis 39:14 , Genesis 39:17 ); ḳālaṣ , "to call out," or "cry after," "to scoff" or "mock at" ( 2 Kings 2:23; Ezekiel 22:5 ); s̄aḥaḳ , "to laugh," "mock" ( Job 39:22; Lamentations 1:7 ); lūc , "to scorn" ( Proverbs 14:9 ); seḥōḳ , "laughter," "derision" ( Job 12:4 ); empaizō , "to treat as a child," "mock" ( Matthew 2:16; Matthew 20:19; Matthew 27:29 , Matthew 27:31 , Matthew 27:41; Luke 14:29 , etc.); diachleuázō , "to mock," "laugh," etc. ( Acts 2:13; Acts 17:32 ); muktērı́zo , "to sneer at," "mock," literally, "to turn up the nose" ( Galatians 6:7 , "God is not mocked," "will not let himself be mocked"); ἐπιγελάω , epigeláō , "laugh" ( Job 2:8; 1 Macc 7:34; compare 2 Macc 7:39; 8:17).
Mocker , hăthūlı̄m , "deceivers," "mockers" ( Job 17:2 ); lūc ( Proverbs 20:1; Isaiah 28:22 the King James Version); lā‛ēgh , "stammering," "mocking" ( Psalm 35:16; compare Isaiah 28:11 ); s̄aḥaḳ ( Jeremiah 15:17 ); empaı́ktēs , "a mocker," "scoffer," literally, "sporting as children" ( Judges 1:18; compare 2 Peter 3:3 ).
Mocking is the translation of ḳallāṣāh "mocking," "derision" ( Ezekiel 22:4 ); of empaigmós the Septuagint for ḳallāṣāh ) ( Hebrews 11:36; The Wisdom of Solomon 12:25; Ecclesiasticus 27:28, "mockery"; 2 Macc 7:7, "mocking-stock," the Revised Version (British and American) "the mocking"; 2 Macc 7:10, "made a mocking-stock" ( empaizō )); of μῶκος , mṓkos (Ecclesiasticus 33:6).
For "mocked of" ( Job 12:4 ) the Revised Version (British and American) has "a laughing-stock to"; for "mockers" ( Isaiah 28:22 ), the English Revised Version "scorner," the American Standard Revised Version "scoffer"; for "the mockers" ( Jeremiah 15:17 ), "them that made merry"; for "scorneth" ( Proverbs 19:28 ), "mocketh at"; for "As one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?" ( Job 13:9 ), "As one deceiveth a man will ye deceive him?" (margin, "mocketh," "mock"); "mock" for "laugh" ( Job 9:23 ); for "There shall come in the last days scoffers" ( 2 Peter 3:3 ), "In the last days (margin, "Greek in the last of the days") mockers shall come with mockery" ( empaigmonḗ empaı́ktai ).
