תָּעַעtâʻaʻ

mock

Pronunciation: taw-ah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8591

Meanings

Pilpel: = substantive a mocker (Genesis 27:12)

Hithpa`el: mocking at (2 Chronicles 36:16)

Same root

תַּעְתֻּעַtaʻtuaʻ · H8595a fraud

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

Genesis 27:12 What if my father touches me? He’ll see that I’m trying to trick him, and then he’ll curse me instead of blessing me.”
2 Chronicles 36:16 But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the Lord’s anger could no longer be restrained and nothing could be done.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).