| Strong's Concordance laab: to jestOriginal Word: לָעַב Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: laab Phonetic Spelling: (law-ab') Short Definition: mocked Brown-Driver-Briggs[לָעַב]  verb jest (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id.; ᵑ7 לְעַב Ethpa`al id.; Syriac  Ethpa`al mock, delight oneself, be greedy; Arabic  play, sport, jest); — only Hiph`il Participle ׳וַיִּהְיוּ מַלְעִבִים בְּ2Chronicles 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God.  Strong's Exhaustive Concordancemock A primitive root; to deride -- mock. Forms and Transliterationsמַלְעִבִים֙ מלעבים mal‘iḇîm mal·‘i·ḇîm maliVim LinksInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's ConcordanceStrong's Hebrew 3931 1 Occurrence mal·‘i·ḇîm — 1 Occ. 2 Chronicles 36:16 HEB: וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ מַלְעִבִים֙ בְּמַלְאֲכֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים NAS: but they [continually] mocked the messengers KJV: But they mocked the messengers of God, INT: become they mocked the messengers of God | 



