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עָלַל

a.lal

to mock

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Strong’s H5953cVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

is acting like children1

In the text

Isaiah 3:12מְעוֹלֵל
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עָלַל] vb. denom. act or play the child;—only Pō‛. Is 3:12

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.