Definition

a buffoon; also a foreigner

Etymology

from H3932 (לָעַג);

Word family

• לָעַג lâʻag

How the KJV renders it

• mocker
• stammering

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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.