Strong's #3988: ma'ac (pronounced maw-as')
a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear:--abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, X utterly, vile person.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mâ'as
1) to reject, despise, refuse
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to reject, refuse
1a2) to despise
1b) (Niphal) to be rejected
2) (Niphal) to flow, run
Part of Speech:
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1139, 1140
Usage:
This word is used 76 times:
Leviticus 26:15: "And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments,"
Leviticus 26:43: "of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes."
Leviticus 26:44: "when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly,"
Numbers 11:20: "at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD"
Numbers 14:31: "the land which ye have despised."
Judges 9:38: "this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight"
1 Samuel 8:7: "unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign"
1 Samuel 8:7: "they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over"
1 Samuel 10:19: "And ye rejected your God, who himself saved"
1 Samuel 15:23: "is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected"
1 Samuel 15:23: "the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king."
1 Samuel 15:26: "return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD"
1 Samuel 15:26: "the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over"
1 Samuel 16:1: "mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over"
1 Samuel 16:7: "the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man"
2 Kings 17:15: " And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers,"
2 Kings 17:20: "And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand"
2 Kings 23:27: "as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city"
Job 5:17: "is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:"
Job 7:5: "of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome."
Job 7:16: " I loathe live always: let me alone; for my days"
Job 8:20: "Behold, will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help"
Job 9:21: "yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life."
Job 10:3: "thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon"
Job 19:18: "Yea, despised me; I arose, and they spoke"
Job 30:1: "than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with"
Job 31:13: "If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with"
Job 34:33: "Should it be according to thy mind? it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose;"
Job 36:5: "Behold, is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom."
Job 42:6: "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
Psalms 15:4: "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt,"
Psalms 36:4: "a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil."
Psalms 53:5: "of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised"
Psalms 58:7: " Let them melt away waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces."
Psalms 78:59: "this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:"
Psalms 78:67: " Moreover he refused of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:"
Psalms 89:38: "But thou and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed."
Psalms 106:24: " Yea, they despised land, they believed not his word:"
Psalms 118:22: "The stone refused is become the head stone of the corner."
Proverbs 3:11: "My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:"
Proverbs 15:32: "He that refuseth despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding."
Isaiah 5:24: "shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts,"
Isaiah 7:15: "shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good."
Isaiah 7:16: "the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land"
Isaiah 8:6: "Forasmuch people refuseth the waters of Shiloah"
Isaiah 30:12: "the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression"
Isaiah 31:7: "day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,"
Isaiah 33:8: "the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no"
Isaiah 33:15: "and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands"
Isaiah 41:9: "thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away."
