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מוּק

to mock

H4167 Strong's Hebrew
mûwq Transliteration
/mook/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

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מוק — transliterated mûwq — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to mock.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Psalms (100% of all occurrences). It occurs only once, in Psalms 73:8. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
be corrupt
Modern gloss
to mock
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H4167 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.
Psalms 73:8
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Psalms 73:8.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 1 · 100%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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: They are corrupt 1×
  • American Standard Version: They scoff 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: They mock 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: They mock 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H4167 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “They are corrupt” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H4167 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “They scoff” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H4167 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “They mock” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H4167 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “They mock” 1×

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.

  1. (Hiphil) to mock, deride, jeer

Word origin

[ מוּק, מִיק ] vb. mock, deride;— ψ 73:8

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: a primitive root

Part of speech: Verb TWOT: 1163


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.

מוּק

  • (cmp. מוּךְ a. מקק) to be crushed, stamped upon; to be soft; v. next w.
    • (cmp. בָּסַר I; b. h. Hif.) to talk contemptuously, sneer, mock. Targ. Prov. XIX, 28 (Ms. corruptly ממריק, for מְמַיֵּיק). Ib. III, 11 תמריק (read: תְמַיֵּיק).
    • same. Ib. IX, 12 (some ed. מֵמִיךְ, v. מוּךְ).—Targ. Is. XXXVII, 22 ממיקא ed. Lag. (oth. ed. מעי׳); Targ. II Kings XIX, 21 ממי׳ Bxt. (ed. Lag. מעי׳).

מוֹק

  • (preced.) [a soft hackled substance (cmp. מוֹךְ),] felt-sock or stocking. Tosef. Yeb. XII, 10 (Ms. Erf. מוך, marginal correction מוק); Yeb. 102ᵇ bot.

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.


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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