la.ag denotes treating someone or something with derisive scorn, often through open ridicule or taunting.

Across the supplied verses, the verb denotes derisive scorn directed at a person or circumstance: opponents ridicule Nehemiah’s group, Zion scorns its adversary, and speakers describe mocking the poor, a father, or another’s distress.

1. Derisive scorn or ridicule · dominant

   The forms mark overt contempt in several concrete settings: in 2 Kings 19:21 the APB renders Zion’s action toward an adversary as having “mocked you,” while in Nehemiah 2:19 hostile hearers mock and despise the group’s work. Qal participles identify a person who scorns the poor in Proverbs 17:5 and Jeremiah’s experience of being mocked by everyone in Jeremiah 20:7; in Proverbs 30:17, the action is directed toward a father.

   2 Kings 19:21Nehemiah 2:19Jeremiah 20:7Proverbs 17:5Proverbs 30:17Job 11:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the action with “mocked,” and also describes people as objects of “laughter and mockery” or as a “laughingstock” in 2 Chronicles 30:10 and Jeremiah 20:7. In Psalm 22:8, Psalm 59:9, and Psalm 80:7, the translation does not make a corresponding English expression for the term clear.