Topic
Mock; Mocker; Mocking
52 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 8:17ISBE
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
- Genesis 19:14ISBE
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
- Genesis 21:9ISBE
¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
- Genesis 39:14ISBE
That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
- Genesis 39:17ISBE
And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
- Judges 16:10ISBE
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
- Judges 16:13ISBE
And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
- Judges 16:15ISBE
¶ And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
- 1 Kings 18:27ISBE
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
- 2 Kings 2:23ISBE
¶ And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
- 2 Chronicles 30:10ISBE
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
- Nehemiah 4:1ISBE
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
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- Job 2:8 ISBE
- Job 9:23 ISBE
- Job 11:3 ISBE
- Job 12:4 ISBE
- Job 13:9 ISBE
- Job 17:2 ISBE
- Job 21:3 ISBE
- Job 39:22 ISBE
- Psalms 35:16 ISBE
- Proverbs 1:26 ISBE
- Proverbs 14:9 ISBE
- Proverbs 17:5 ISBE
- Proverbs 19:28 ISBE
- Proverbs 20:1 ISBE
- Proverbs 30:17 ISBE
- Isaiah 28:11 ISBE
- Isaiah 28:22 ISBE
- Jeremiah 15:17 ISBE
- Jeremiah 20:7 ISBE
- Lamentations 1:7 ISBE
- Ezekiel 22:4 ISBE
- Ezekiel 22:5 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 12:25 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 27:28 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 33:6 ISBE
- 1 Maccabees 7:34 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 7:7 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 7:10 ISBE
- Matthew 2:16 ISBE
- Matthew 20:19 ISBE
- Matthew 27:29 ISBE
- Matthew 27:31 ISBE
- Matthew 27:41 ISBE
- Luke 14:29 ISBE
- Acts 2:13 ISBE
- Acts 17:32 ISBE
- Galatians 6:7 ISBE
- Hebrews 11:36 ISBE
- 2 Peter 3:3 ISBE
- Jude 1:18 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 57 references
mok, mok'er, mok'-ing (hathal, la`agh, empaizo): To mock is the translation of hathal, "to play upon," "mock," "deride" (Jud 16:10,13,15; 1Ki 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" (2Ch 30:10; Ne 4:1; Job 11:3; 21:3; Pr 1:26; 17:5; 30:17; Jer 20:7). Other words are tsachaq, "to laugh," etc. (Ge 19:14; 21:9;, 39:14,17); qalac, "to call out," or "cry after," "to scoff" or "mock at" (2Ki 2:23; Eze 22:5); sachaq, "to laugh," "mock" (Job 39:22; La 1:7); luts, "to scorn" (Pr 14:9); sechoq, "laughter," "derision" (Job 12:4); empaizo, "to treat as a child," "mock" (Mt 2:16; 20:19; 27:29,31,41; Lu 14:29, etc.); diachleuazo, "to mock," "laugh," etc. (Ac 2:13; 17:32); mukterizo, "to sneer at," "mock," literally, "to turn up the nose" (Ga 6:7, "God is not mocked," "will not let himself be mocked"); epigelao, "laugh" (Job 2:8; /RAPC 1Ma 7:34; compare /RAPC 2Ma 7:39; 8:17).
Mocker, hathulim, "deceivers," "mockers" (Job 17:2); luts (Pr 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 2Pe 3:3).
Mocking is the translation of qallacah "mocking," "derision" (Eze 22:4); of empaigmos the Septuagint for qallacah) (Heb 11:36; /RAPC Wis 12:25; Ecclesiasticus 27:28, "mockery"; /RAPC 2Ma 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" (Pr 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" (2Pe 3:3), "In the last days (margin, "Greek in the last of the days") mockers shall come with mockery" (empaigmone empaiktai).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.