Definition

properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• ambassador
• have in derision
• interpreter
• make a mock
• mocker
• scorn(-er
• -ful)
• teacher

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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