STRONGS NUMBER H3887


Word Summary
luts: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker
Original Word: לוּץ
Transliteration: luts
Phonetic Spelling: (loots)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker
Meaning: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker
Strong's Concordance
ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3887. luts

[לִיץ‎] verb scorn (Late Hebrew id.; verb not in cognates; compare Phoenician מלץinterpreter CIS22; CIS44; CIS88; Arabic is turn aside (intransitive); hence perhaps properly speak indirectly or obliquely, FlDe Pr.1, 6); —

Qal Perfect3masculine לַצְתָּProverbs 9:12; Imperfect יָלִיץ3:34 2t.; Participle לֵץ9:7 11t.; plural לֵצִיםPsalm 1:1 3t.; — scorn, תִשָּׂא לְבַדְּךָ וְלַצְתָּProverbs 9:12 if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it (opposed to חָכַמְתָּ‎), with accusative 14:9; 19:28; with הוּאיָֿלִיץ לַלֵּצִים לְ,scorners he (God) scorneth 3:34; הַלֵּץ‎ the scorner is proud and haughty 21:24, delights in scorning 1:22, is incapable of discipline 9:7, reproof 9:8; is 15:12, or rebuke is 13:1, cannot find wisdom 14:6; is an abomination 24:9, should be avoided Psalm 1:1; smitten and punished for the benefit of the simple Proverbs 19:25; 21:11 and banished for the removal of contention 22:10; judgment is prepared for him 19:29; "" עָרִיץIsaiah 29:20; wine is a scorner Proverbs 20:1. —

Hiph`il Perfect3masculine plural suffix הֱלִיצֻנִיPsalm 119:51; Participle מֵלִיץGenesis 42:23; Job 33:23; plural construct מְלִיצֵי2 Chronicles 32:31; suffix מְלִיצַיJob 16:20; מְלִיצֶיךָIsaiah 43:27; —

1 deride Job 16:20; Psalm 119:51.

2 Participle interpreter Genesis 42:23 (E); figurative of intermediaries between God and man, Job 33:28; Isaiah 43:27; ambassador2 Chronicles 32:31.

Po`lel Participle plural לֹצֲצִים‎ (מְ‎ dropped Köii. 479) scorners Hosea 7:5.

Hithpa`el Imperfect תִּתְלוֺצָ֑צוּact as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker, Isaiah 28:22.