Lexical Summary laab: to jest Original Word: לָעַבTransliteration: laab Phonetic Spelling: (law-ab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to jest Meaning: to deride Strong's Concordance mock A primitive root; to deride -- mock. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3931. laab [לָעַב] verb jest (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; לְעַב ᵑ7 Ethpa`al id.; Syriac Ethpa`al mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic play, sport, jest); — only Hiph`il Participle בְּ מַלְעִבִים ׳וַיִּהְיוּ2 Chronicles 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God. |
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