לִיץ (lîṣ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning scorn. It appears
27 times
in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H3887).
Also rendered
to mock
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1113)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1113)scorn; deride, interpreter; scorners; act as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker; make mouths at, scoff, interpret, intercede; ambassador, have in derision, make a mock, mocker, scornful, teacher
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
לִיץverb: scorn
Qalscorn
Hiphil
1.deride
2.participle interpreter
Polelscorners
Hithpaelact as a scorner, shew oneself a mocker
Strong's H3887לוּץ: properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede KJV:ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Strong's H3945לָצַץ: to deride KJV:scorn.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.