deride

«deride» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To laugh at something with scorn and mock it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To laugh at something with scorn and mock it. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Habakkuk the Babylonians mock every fortress, a picture of their proud power that tradition says God will end.

examples

• And they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision unto them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up earth, and take it. (Prophets HAB.1.10, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «deride» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.