לָצַץ lâtsats — to deride
Translated in the KJV as scorn.
a primitive root; to deride.
lâtsats in each stem
Polel
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
לֹצְצִֽים Hos 7:5 Participle (active), masculine plural
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›