1 occurrence in 1 dictionary
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 will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
"And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.
You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.
I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible