12 occurrences

'Mocking' in the Bible

Some time later, Delilah told Samson, "Look here! You've been mocking me and lying to me. Now please tell me how you can be tied up."

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfIndividuals Who LiedTying Up

Later on, Delilah told Samson, "You're still mocking me and telling me lies! Tell me how to tie you up!" He answered her, "If you weave the seven locks on my head into a loom and fasten it with a peg, then I will become weak and just like any other human being."

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

Later, Elisha left there to go up to Bethel, and as he was traveling along the road, some insignificant young men came from the city and started mocking him. They told him, "Get on up, baldy! Get on up, baldy!"

Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

Verse ConceptsBywordMockerySongsjoking

Those who wink their eyes are trouble makers, and the mocking fool will be brought down.

Verse ConceptsGriefAbasing PeopleEvil EyesWinkingHeartache

But as for you, don't start mocking, or your chains will become tighter; for I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies about destruction, and it is decreed against the whole land.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

Whom are you mocking? And against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of lies,

Verse ConceptsMockeryNosesTongueInfidelity To GodDisdainChildren Of EvilScoffersThe TongueSportsFunrebellion

"Make him drunk for he has exalted himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he will be the object of mocking.

Verse ConceptsdefianceVomittingGod Making Drunk

Wasn't Israel an object of mocking for you? Wasn't he treated like a thief, so that whenever you spoke about him you shook your head in contempt?

Verse Conceptsthieves

Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodWanderersPeople RememberingHistory Of NationsNo HelpScoffers

"Will not all of these ridicule him with mocking scorn? They will say, "Woe to the one who hordes for himself what isn't his. How long will you enrich yourself by extortion?'

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersPainRidicule, Nature OfRiches, Description OfGuileSocial SelfishnessTransient WealthDo Not StealWoe To The WickedMorality

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Derisive (1 instance)
Jeering (2 instances)
Monotonous (1 instance)
Taunting (11 instances)

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