μυκτηρίζω
to mock
‘to mock’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3456 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Galatians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
μυκτηριζω (myktērízō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to mock.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Galatians dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Galatians 6:7. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3456 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Galatians 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Is 1×, Mocked 1×
- American Standard Version: Is 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be mocked 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is 1×, Mocked 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3456 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3456 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3456 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3456 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to turn up the nose or sneer at
- to mock, deride
Word origin
Derived from μυκαομαι (mykáomai) (G3455) — to bellow.
From a derivative of the base of G3455 (meaning snout as that whence lowing proceeds from); to make mouths at that is ridicule : - mock.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μυκτηριζω appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 9 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 18:27 μυκτηρίζω
- 2 Kings 19:21 μυκτηρίζω
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 μυκτηρίζω
- Job 22:19 μυκτηρίζω
- Psalms 79:7 μυκτηρίζω
- Proverbs 1:30 μυκτηρίζω
- Isaiah 37:22 μυκτηρίζω
- Jeremiah 20:7 μυκτηρίζω
- Ezekiel 8:17 μυκτηρίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3456) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 18:27 μυκτηρίζω It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.
- 2 Kings 19:21 μυκτηρίζω This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 μυκτηρίζω but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Job 22:19 μυκτηρίζω The righteous see it, and are glad; The innocent ridicule them,
- Psalms 79:7 μυκτηρίζω For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
- Proverbs 1:30 μυκτηρίζω They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
- Proverbs 11:12 μυκτηρίζω One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding holds his peace.
- Proverbs 12:8 μυκτηρίζω A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, But he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
- Proverbs 15:5 μυκτηρίζω A fool despises his father's correction, But he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
- Proverbs 15:20 μυκτηρίζω A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.
- Proverbs 23:9 μυκτηρίζω Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- Isaiah 37:22 μυκτηρίζω this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- Jeremiah 20:7 μυκτηρίζω Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
- Ezekiel 8:17 μυκτηρίζω Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, behold, they put the branch to their nose.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3456) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
