Strong's #959: bazah (pronounced baw-zaw')

a primitive root; to disesteem:--despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), + think to scorn, vile person.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâzâh

1) to despise, hold in contempt, disdain

1a) (Qal) to despise, regard with contempt

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be despised

1b2) to be despicable

1b3) to be vile, worthless

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to despise

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 42 times:

 

Genesis 25:34: "and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."
Numbers 15:31: "Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul"
1 Samuel 2:30: "Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed."
1 Samuel 10:27: "How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace."
1 Samuel 17:42: "and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy,"
2 Samuel 6:16: "and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart."
2 Samuel 12:9: "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight?"
2 Samuel 12:10: "shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised"
2 Kings 19:21: "him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; of Jerusalem hath shaken"
1 Chronicles 15:29: "David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart."
2 Chronicles 36:16: "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets,"
Nehemiah 2:19: "the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, is this"
Esther 1:17: "unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported,"
Esther 3:6: "And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed"
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 22:6: "man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people."
Psalms 22:24: "For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither"
Psalms 51:17: "heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."
Psalms 69:33: "the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners."
Psalms 73:20: "when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image."
Psalms 102:17: "He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer."
Psalms 119:141: "I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts."
Proverbs 14:2: "the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth"
Proverbs 15:20: "father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother."
Proverbs 19:16: "the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die."
Ecclesiastes 9:16: "than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard."
Isaiah 53:3: " He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid"
Isaiah 53:3: "and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, him not."
Jeremiah 22:28: "Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no"
Jeremiah 49:15: "I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men."
Ezekiel 16:59: "thee as thou hast done, which hast despised in breaking the covenant."
Ezekiel 17:16: "dwelleth that made him king, whose he despised, and whose"
Ezekiel 17:18: " Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done"
Ezekiel 17:19: "surely mine oath that he hath despised, that he hath broken,"
Ezekiel 22:8: " Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths."
Daniel 11:21: "And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor"
Obadiah 1:2: "among the heathen: thou art greatly despised."
Malachi 1:6: "the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised"
Malachi 1:6: "my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?"
Malachi 1:7: "thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible."
Malachi 1:12: "is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible."
Malachi 2:9: "Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as"