![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (the rendering given in Proverbs 1:22 to latson, a word from a totally different root and one much more nearly approximating the fundamental idea of the English word "Scorn." In Proverbs 29:8 and Isaiah 28:14 latson is rendered "scornful").Īs a verb the word is the translation given to la`agh, "to mock" ( 2 Kings 19:21 parallel Isaiah 37:22 Nehemiah 2:19 Psalms 22:7, "all laugh to scorn") qalas = "to scoff" ( Ezekiel 16:31, margin "Greek: In the King James Version Job 34:7 Psalms 123:4, la`agh is rendered "scorning". In Habakkuk 1:10 (the King James Version) the word translated "scorn" is micchaq, "an object of laughter," "laughing-stock." In Psalms 44:13 79:4 the Hebrew word is la`agh from a root, probably meaning "to stutter," "stammer," for which "mocking" is a better English equivalent. The two words "thought scorn" in Esther 3:6 represent but one in Hebrew, namely, bazah, for which "disdain" would be a nearer equivalent. The word, outside of the phrase "laugh to scorn," is found only in the Old Testament, and then only 4 times ( Esther 3:6 King James Version, Psalms 44:13 79:4 Habakkuk 1:10), and it represents three different Hebrew words for none of which it is a suitable rendering. It is obvious that scorn may-indeed, it not uncommonly does-arise in connection with an not grounded, arrogant sense of self-esteem. Scorn is a hotter, fiercer emotion than disdain or contempt. This reaction occurs when one is confronted with a person or a proposition that by challenging certain things for itself evokes a vivid sense of one's own superiority and awakens mingled resentment, repulsion and contempt by the hollowness of its claims and its intrinsic inferiority or worse. It includes a sense of superiority, resentment, and aversion. Claire Parker, Washington Post, 26 June 2023 Guests flocked and returned, spurning fancier, bigger hotels.Fox Talbot connects this English word with the Danish skarn, "dirt," "ordure" "mud," "mire." As distinguished from such words as "mock," "deride," "scoff," all of which refer specifically to the various ways in which scorn finds outward expression, scorn itself denotes a subjective state or reaction.įurther, this state or reaction is not simple but complex. Mark Inabinett | al, 8 July 2023 After a popular uprising in Belarus in 2020, Putin came to the dictator’s aid when others spurned him. Town & Country, 12 July 2023 Loftin spurned the Athletics to attend South Alabama. Sam Pilger, Forbes, All of the dynamics at play before a wedding: Who spurned who and what mother-in-law left out the other, family wealth being split. Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023 United should have taken the lead with one of these chances, but by spurning them Ten Hag’s side remained vulnerable. Justin Spears, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023 Three months later, the prince spurned Biden when the OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting nations decided to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day. Reuters, NBC News, 19 July 2023 Rushing bucked the trend of Salpointe Catholic stars to spurn Arizona. Verb Moscow spurned calls from Ukraine to allow shipping to resume without Russian participation, with the Kremlin openly saying ships entering the area without its guarantees would be in danger. ![]()
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