Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Scorners
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Hosea 7:5
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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לוּץ
lûwts · loots
3 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
Strong's KJV usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 1:22Strong's last: Proverbs 19:29
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lâtsats · law-tsats'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to deride
Strong's KJV usage: scorn.
Strong's first: Hosea 7:5Strong's last: Hosea 7:5
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H3887
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
H3887
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
H3887
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
H3945
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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scorner
SCORN'ER, noun
1. One that scorns; a contemner; a despiser.
They are great scorners of death.
2. A scoffer; a derider; in Scripture, one who scoffs at religion, its ordinances and teachers, and who makes a mock of sin and the judgments and threatenings of God against sinners. Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 19:25
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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