KJV dictionary & concordance
Persons who mock, despise, or treat others or truth with contempt.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Proverbs 1:22
Complete exact-word concordance
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giueth grace vnto the lowly.
1611 marginal noteIam. 4.6. 1.pet.5.5.
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Iudgements are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backe of fooles.
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
In the day of our King, the princes haue made him sicke with bottels of wine, he stretched out his hand with scorners.
1611 marginal noteOr, with he at through wine.
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