Bible word study

Luwts (Strong’s H3887): Meaning in the Bible

Luwts (לוּץ) is the Hebrew word numbered H3887 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede. In the King James Bible it is translated ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker.

• Original wordלוּץ
• Transliterationlûwts
• Pronunciationloots
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3887
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Luwts appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Luwts (H3887) stands behind 27 English renderings in 26 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (18), Isaiah (3), Job (2).

How the King James Bible renders Luwts, by count

• scorner11 of 27 (41 percent)
• scorners3 of 27 (11 percent)
• interpreter2 of 27 (7 percent)
• scorneth2 of 27 (7 percent)
• ambassadors1 of 27 (4 percent)
• derision1 of 27 (4 percent)

Three places to read Luwts

• Genesis 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
• Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
• Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Luwts in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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