Laag לַ֫עַג

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Laag (Hebrew לַ֫עַג, Strong's H3933) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “derision”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) mocking, derision, stammering
1a) mocking, derision
1b) stammerings

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	derision (3), scorning (2), scorn (2)
BSB	derision (2), mockery (2), scorn (2), they will be ridiculed (1)

Every verse with Laag, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Psalm 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Psalm 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Psalm 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Ezekiel 23:32
Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
Ezekiel 36:4
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.

Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).