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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."
You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
"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 head among the peoples.
I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.