Occurrences
Laʻag occurs 7 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Psalms (3), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (1)
- Job 34:7 — What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning (לַּ֥עַג) like water?
- Psalms 44:13 — Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn (לַ֥עַג) and a derision to them that are round about us.
- Psalms 79:4 — We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn (לַ֥עַג) and derision to them that are round about us.
- Psalms 123:4 — Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning (הַלַּ֥עַג) of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
- Ezekiel 23:32 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision (וּלְלַ֖עַג); it containeth much.
- Ezekiel 36:4 — Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision (וּלְלַ֔עַג) to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
- Hosea 7:16 — They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision (לַעְגָּ֖ם) in the land of Egypt.