לִיץ luts

Hebrew word for “to mock” · Strong’s H3887 · used 28 times in 27 verses

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Meaning

1) to scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly;

How it is translated

Glosses given for luts in context, with how often each is used:

• mocker 12
• mockers 4
• mocks 3
• interpreter 1
• envoys 1
• scoffing at 1
• mediator 1
• have mocked 1
• mock 1
• show yourself a mocker 1
• spokesmen 1
• scorners 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Proverbs 9 (3), Proverbs 19 (3), Proverbs 14 (2), Proverbs 21 (2), Genesis 42 (1), 2 Chronicles 32 (1), Job 16 (1), Job 33 (1), Psalms 1 (1), Psalms 119 (1)

Forms

• לץ 11
• יליץ 3
• ללצים 2
• המליץ 1
• במליצי 1
• מליצי 1
• מליץ 1
• לצים 1
• הליצני 1
• ולצים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with luts more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָכַח yakhach “to rebuke” 4
• דַּעַת daat “knowledge” 4
• פֶּתִי peti “simple” 3
• חָכָם chakham “wise” 4
• חָכַם chakham “be wise” 3
• זֵד zed “arrogant” 2
• קָלוֹן qalon “dishonor” 2
• אָהֵב ahav “to love” 3
• רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 3
• כְּסִיל kesil “fool” 2
• אָוֶן aven “evil” 2
• פֶּן־ pen “lest” 2

Key verses

The verses using luts that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Chronicles 32:31 — Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to…
• Job 33:23 — If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
• Psalms 1:1 — Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
• Proverbs 1:22 — How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Proverbs 9:7 — He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
• Proverbs 9:8 — Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
• Proverbs 14:6 — A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
• Proverbs 20:1 — Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
• Isaiah 28:22 — Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole…
• Isaiah 29:20 — For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
• Isaiah 43:27 — Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
• Hosea 7:5 — In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

See all 27 verses in the Word Atlas

Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.