הָיָה לָבוּז

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To be despised / to be the laughing-stock

הגדרה (אנגלית)

It was to mock. It was to be a parable and a joke. They mocked or despised him.

("And Judah said, Take her, lest she be a prey: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her" - in the beginning of Lachish 23 (Judah to his friend the Adullamite), and so: "But Joseph shall yet make his words heard in the tents of Jacob, lest he be a prey" - Abraham Mapu/ Ayt Tsavoa, 44)