Strong's #7034: qalah (pronounced kaw-law')

a primitive root; to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt):--base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâlâh

1) to disgrace, dishonour, be lightly esteemed, be dishonoured, be despised

1a) (Niphal) to be dishonoured, be despised, be lightly esteemed

1b) (Hiphil) to treat with contempt, dishonour, treat shamefully

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Deuteronomy 25:3: "with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto"
Deuteronomy 27:16: "Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen."
1 Samuel 18:23: "seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"
Proverbs 12:9: " He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread."
Isaiah 3:5: "the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable."
Isaiah 16:14: "of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant"