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Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in De 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; 2Ch 7:20, the Hebrew sheninah is used. In Jer 24:9 it is rendered "taunt."
And you shall become an amazement, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the Lord will lead you.
And now I have become their song; yes, I am a byword to them.
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people.
I will even give them up to be a dismay and a horror and to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach, a byword or proverb, a taunt, and a curse in all places where I will drive them.