הֲתֻלִֿים
mockery
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2049 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
About this entry
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התל — transliterated hâthôl — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “mockery.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Job. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Job 17:2. It shares a root with התל and מהתלה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2049 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 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: Are there not mockers 1×
- American Standard Version: Surely there are mockers 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mockers 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are 1×, Mockers 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2049 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2049 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2049 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2049 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- mockery, mocker
Word origin
n.[m.]pl. mockery:—אִם־לֹא ה׳ עִמָּדִי Jb 17:2 truly mockery surroundeth me (De Di Da cf. VB).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from התל (hâthal) (H2048) — to mock.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תֵּל
- 1. hill, mound. Meg. 14ᵃ לאחד … תל וכ׳ one had a mound in his field, and another had a trench. Ib. מכור לי תִּילְּךָ sell me thy mound (to fill up my trench). Ber. 30ᵃ; Cant. R. to IV, 4, v. פֶּה. Ib. to V, 11 יכולות … ולעשותו תל they can ruin a world and make it a mound (ruin); a. fr.—Pl. תִּלִּים, תִּלִּין, תִּי׳. Men. 29ᵇ תִּילֵּי ת׳ (later ed. תילין ת׳), v. קוֹץ I; Tanḥ. B’resh. 1; Erub. 21ᵇ. Cant. R. l. c. תילי ת׳ הן they are piles on piles (of ideas), v. קִיץ h.; a. e. e.g. Genesis 1:1
- 2. (cmp. סלסל) lock, curl. —Pl. as ab. Num. R. s. 107 מסודרות ת׳ ת׳; Y. Ned. I, 36ᵈ bot. תילי ת׳, v. קְווּצּוֹת; (Bab. ib. 9ᵇ, a. e. תלתלים); a. e.—תל ארזא, v. אַרְזָא.—[תִּלִּים, תִּלִּין psalms, v. תְּהִלָּה.]
תֵּל ²
- , mound, ruins. Targ. Deut. XIII, 17. Targ. Jer. XLIX, 2; a. e.—Ber. 58ᵇ ביתא … השתא נפל בת׳ (Ms. M. נפל ליה כת׳) the house in which … now lies in ruins (lies like a ruin).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2049, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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