Strong's #936: buwz (pronounced booz)

a primitive root; to disrespect:--contemn, despise, X utterly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bûz

1) to despise, hold in contempt, hold as insignificant

1a) (Qal) to despise, show despite toward

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Proverbs 1:7: "is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
Proverbs 6:30: "Men do not despise a thief, if he steal his soul when"
Proverbs 11:12: "He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor: but a man holdeth his peace."
Proverbs 13:13: " Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth shall be rewarded."
Proverbs 14:21: " He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor,"
Proverbs 23:9: "in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words."
Proverbs 23:22: "unto thy father that begot thee, and despise thy mother when she is old."
Proverbs 30:17: "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey the ravens of the valley"
Song of Solomon 8:1: "thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised."
Song of Solomon 8:7: "all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned."
Song of Solomon 8:7: "all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. it would utterly be contemned."
Isaiah 37:22: "him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken"
Zechariah 4:10: "For who hath despised the day of small things? and shall see"