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Strong's #937: buwz (pronounced booz)

from 936; disrespect:--contempt(-uously), despised, shamed.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bûz

1) contempt

1a) springing from evil

1b) springing from prosperity

1c) springing from judgment

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H936



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Genesis 38:23: "Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid,"
Job 12:5: "to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised of him that is at ease."
Job 12:21: "He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth of the mighty."
Job 31:34: "Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families me, that I kept silence, and went not out"
Psalms 31:18: "which speak grievous things and contemptuously against the righteous."
Psalms 107:40: "He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander where there is no way."
Psalms 119:22: "Remove from me reproach and contempt; for thy testimonies."
Psalms 123:3: "us: for we are exceedingly with contempt."
Psalms 123:4: "filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud."
Proverbs 12:8: "but he that is of a perverse shall be despised."
Proverbs 18:3: "cometh, then cometh also contempt, ignominy reproach."









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