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:
Isaiah 54:6: "and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God."
Jeremiah 2:37: "upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper"
Jeremiah 4:30: "in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life."
Jeremiah 6:19: "unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected"
Jeremiah 6:30: " Reprobate shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected"
Jeremiah 6:30: "shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected"
Jeremiah 7:29: "high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath."
Jeremiah 8:9: "they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom"
Jeremiah 14:19: " Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why"
Jeremiah 14:19: "Hast thou utterly rejected Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why"
Jeremiah 31:37: "searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel"
Jeremiah 33:24: "which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no"
Jeremiah 33:26: "Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take"
Lamentations 5:22: "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against"
Lamentations 5:22: "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against"
Ezekiel 5:6: "that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked"
Ezekiel 20:13: "they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do,"
Ezekiel 20:16: "Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths:"
Ezekiel 20:24: "executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes"
Ezekiel 21:10: "that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son,"
Ezekiel 21:13: "and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no"
Hosea 4:6: "for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest"
Hosea 4:6: "because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten"
Hosea 9:17: "My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations."
Amos 2:4: "I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not"
Amos 5:21: "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies."
