לוּץ lûwts — properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff
Translated in the KJV as ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
a primitive root; properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede.
lûwts in each stem
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Hitpolel
Jussive 1
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
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 ›