Bible Dictionary: Taunts

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Strong's Hebrew

2778a. charaph -- to reproach
... 2), defy (2), despised (1), insult (1), reproach (7), reproached (8), reproaches
(5), revile (2), reviled (1), scorned (1), taunt (1), taunted (6), taunts (2). ...
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Library

Taunts Turning to Testimonies
... D.; ST. MATTHEW Chaps. XVIII to XXVIII TAUNTS TURNING TO TESTIMONIES. '... The chief
priests mocking Him ... said, 42. He saved others; Himself He cannot save. ...
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Whether Reviling Consists in Words?
... Reply to Objection 3: Railing and taunts consist in words, even as reviling, because
by all of them a man's faults are exposed to the detriment of his honor. ...
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The King --Continued.
... Taunts provoke taunts; the husband feels that the wife is in heart a partisan of
the fallen house of her father, and a despiser of the Lord and of His worship ...
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Man, by Birth, is Placed under the Dominion of the Devil through ...
... if you will taunt that most faithful man with having entertained Manichean error
in this matter, there is no help for it, you must enjoy your taunts as best ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 15 man by birth is.htm

The Trial by Fire
... light the pyre. So Elijah's taunts came just when they were most biting,
and none can say that they were undeserved. His fiery zeal ...
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The victory of Unarmed Faith
... skirmishes; and for forty days (probably a round number) Goliath paraded on his
own, the south, side of the gulley, shouting out his taunts and challenge with ...
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Expositions of Holy Scripture
... THE SENTENCE WHICH CONDEMNED THE JUDGES. THE CRUCIFIXION. THE BLIND WATCHERS AT
THE CROSS. TAUNTS TURNING TO TESTIMONIES. THE VEIL RENT. THE PRINCE OF LIFE. ...
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Hearken and Look; Or, Encouragement for Believers
... times, "HEARKEN TO ME." You have listened long enough to dreary suggestions from
within, to gloomy prophecies from desponding friends, to the taunts of foes ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 27 1881/hearken and look or encouragement.htm

The Third Word from the Cross
... Ah! the nails pierced her as well as Him; the thorns round His brow were a circle
of flame about her heart; the taunts flung at Him wounded her likewise. ...
/.../stalker/the trial and death of jesus christ/chapter xvi the third word.htm

Twentieth Day. Not Retaliating.
... How alien to natural feeling to answer cutting taunts, and meet unmerited wrong
with the Divine method the Gospel prescribes""Overcome evil with good!" It ...
/.../macduff/the mind of jesus/twentieth day not retaliating.htm

Thesaurus

Taunts (11 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Taunts (11 Occurrences). Luke 23:35 and the people stood
looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. ...
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Uttered (60 Occurrences)
... is blest! (WEY). Luke 23:35 and the people stood looking on. The Rulers,
too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow ...
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Insults (34 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Psalms 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear
in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, (See RSV). ...
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Taunt-song (1 Occurrence)
Taunt-song. Taunts, Taunt-song. Tav . Multi-Version Concordance ... how long? and
that ladeth himself with many pledges!' (See NAS). Taunts, Taunt-song. Tav ...
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Taunting (2 Occurrences)

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Repeatedly (28 Occurrences)
... sport, (WEY). Luke 23:35 and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too,
repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they ...
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Provoke (64 Occurrences)
... to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly,
to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by ...
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Anointed (132 Occurrences)
... king." (WEY). Luke 23:35 and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too,
repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they ...
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Scorned (18 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). Psalms 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I
bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, (See RSV). ...
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Sting (5 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
9. (vt) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches. Int. ...
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Bible Concordance

Taunts (11 Occurrences)

Luke 23:35 and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they said, "saved others: let him save himself, if he is God's Anointed, the Chosen One."
(WEY)

Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
(See RSV)

Psalms 55:12 For it was not an enemy that taunted me, then I could have borne it; neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him.
(See RSV)

Psalms 79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
(See RSV)

Psalms 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
(WEB NIV)

Proverbs 14:31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 17:5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 15:15 O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
(See JPS)

Lamentations 3:61 Thou hast heard their taunt, O LORD, and all their devices against me;
(See RSV)

Ezekiel 36:15 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.
(See NIV)

Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the taunt of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have taunted My people, and spoken boastfully concerning their border.
(See RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Taunts

Related Terms

Uttered (60 Occurrences)

Insults (34 Occurrences)

Taunt-song (1 Occurrence)

Taunting (2 Occurrences)

Repeatedly (28 Occurrences)

Provoke (64 Occurrences)

Anointed (132 Occurrences)

Scorned (18 Occurrences)

Sting (5 Occurrences)