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MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING

mok, mok'er, mok'-ing (hathal, la`agh, empaizo): To mock is the translation of hathal, "to play upon," "mock," "deride" (Jdg 16:10,13,15; 1 Ki 18:27, "Elijah mocked them"; Job 13:9 twice, the Revised Version (British and American) "deceiveth," "deceive," margin "mocketh," "mock"); of la`agh, "to stammer" or "babble in mimicry," "to mock" or "scorn" (2 Ch 30:10; Neh 4:1; Job 11:3; 21:3; Prov 1:26; 17:5; 30:17; Jer 20:7). Other words are tsachaq, "to laugh," etc. (Gen 19:14; 21:9;, 39:14,17); qalac, "to call out," or "cry after," "to scoff" or "mock at" (2 Ki 2:23; Ezek 22:5); sachaq, "to laugh," "mock" (Job 39:22; Lam 1:7); luts, "to scorn" (Prov 14:9); sechoq, "laughter," "derision" (Job 12:4); empaizo, "to treat as a child," "mock" (Mt 2:16; 20:19; 27:29,31,41; Lk 14:29, etc.); diachleuazo, "to mock," "laugh," etc. (Acts 2:13; 17:32); mukterizo, "to sneer at," "mock," literally, "to turn up the nose" (Gal 6:7, "God is not mocked," "will not let himself be mocked"); epigelao, "laugh" (Job 2:8; 1 Macc 7:34; compare 2 Macc 7:39; 8:17).
Mocker, hathulim, "deceivers," "mockers" (Job 17:2); luts (Prov 20:1; Isa 28:22 the King James Version); la`egh, "stammering," "mocking" (Ps 35:16; compare Isa 28:11); sachaq (Jer 15:17); empaiktes, "a mocker," "scoffer," literally, "sporting as children" (Jude 1:18; compare 2 Pet 3:3).
Mocking is the translation of qallacah "mocking," "derision" (Ezek 22:4); of empaigmos the Septuagint for qallacah) (Heb 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" (empaizo)); of mokos (Ecclesiasticus 33:6).
For "mocked of" (Job 12:4) the Revised Version (British and American) has "a laughing-stock to"; for "mockers" (Isa 28:22), the English Revised Version "scorner," the American Standard Revised Version "scoffer"; for "the mockers" (Jer 15:17), "them that made merry"; for "scorneth" (Prov 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 Pet 3:3), "In the last days (margin, "Greek in the last of the days") mockers shall come with mockery" (empaigmone empaiktai).
W. L. Walker
Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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