Lexical Definition

‎לָעַב‎ lâʻab (law-ab') to jest ^H:V
a primitive root

mock.

• to deride

1) to joke, jest
1a) (Hiphil) to make jokes

See Greek: μυκτηρίζω

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 בְּ‎ 2Chr 36:16 and they were (continually) making jest at the messengers of God.

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