Definition

to make mouths at, i.e. ridicule

Etymology

from a derivative of the base of G3455 (μυκάομαι) (meaning snout, as that whence lowing proceeds);

Word family

• μυκάομαι mykáomai

How the KJV renders it

• mock

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.