לוּץ
KJV Translations of H3887
ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Word Origin & Derivation
a primitive root;
H3887 in the King James Bible
26 versesAnd they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
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 try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
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 earth.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.