luts predominantly marks mocking people or conduct, while some participial uses describe an interpreter or mediating messenger.

The attested usage chiefly concerns mocking: it labels a scoffer and describes acts of mockery in warnings, rebukes, and judgments. A smaller group of Hiphil active participles occurs in contexts of interpretation, envoys, mediation, and a messenger who tells a person of uprightness.

1. Scoffing person or act of mockery · dominant

   Adjective forms identify the mocker in settings of refusing rebuke, arrogant conduct, and the removal of strife: in Proverbs 13:1 the APB renders a mocker who does not hear rebuke, and in Proverbs 22:10 it renders driving out the mocker so that strife ceases. Verbal forms describe mockery itself, including the warning not to mock in Isaiah 28:22 and the arrogant who mocked the speaker greatly in Psalm 119:51.

   Proverbs 13:1Proverbs 22:10Proverbs 21:24Isaiah 28:22Psalm 119:51Proverbs 9:12
2. Interpreter or mediating messenger · rare

   Hiphil active participles occur in communicative or representative settings. In Genesis 42:23 the APB renders an interpreter between Joseph and his brothers; in Isaiah 43:27 it renders mediators, while Job 33:23 describes one messenger who tells a man of his uprightness.

   Genesis 42:232 Chronicles 32:31Isaiah 43:27Job 33:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the dominant use with “mocker,” “mock,” “scorners,” or “scoffer.” In the participial contexts it instead renders the surrounding clauses with “interpreter,” “envoys,” “mediators,” and “messenger”; These are presentations of the clauses rather than fixed equivalents.