Quick Definition
to despise
Strong's Definition
to disesteem
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), [phrase] think to scorn, vile person.
TWOT Reference: 224
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּזָה (ba.zah) — to despise. 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 Also means: ba.zoh (בָּזֹה "to despise" H0960)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בִּזָּיֹון
Unwilling | Despise | Revile | verb qal, verb nif | ≈ חָדֵל · חֶרְפָּה · לעב · לעג · פרר · צָעִיר · קָטֹן · קלל · שָׁפָל · שׁקץ · תעם | ≠ חשׁב · ירא · כבד · פנה · שׁמע
to despise, to disdain, to scorn, to consider (something) beneath (oneself) = state in which someone considers someone or something else unworthy of attention or respect, and shows that by his/her actions
GEN 25:34 · NUM 15:31 · 1SA 2:30 · 1SA 10:27 · 1SA 15:9 · 1SA 17:42 · 2SA 6:16 · 2SA 12:9 · 2SA 12:10 · 1CH 15:29 · 2CH 36:16 · NEH 2:19 · EST 3:6 · PSA 15:4 · PSA 22:7 · PSA 22:25 · PSA 51:19 · PSA 69:34 · PSA 73:20 · PSA 102:18 · PSA 119:141 · PRO 14:2 · PRO 15:20 · PRO 19:16 · ECC 9:16 · ISA 49:7 · ISA 53:3 · ISA 53:3 · JER 22:28 · JER 49:15 · EZK 16:59 · EZK 17:16 · EZK 17:18 · EZK 17:19 · EZK 22:8 · DAN 11:21 · OBA 1:2 · MAL 1:6 · MAL 1:6 · MAL 1:7 · MAL 1:12 · MAL 2:9
Unwilling | Despise | verb hif
to cause to despise = action by which someone causes other people to consider someone or something else unworthy of attention or respect, and shows that by his/her actions
1 ISA 49:7 HOTTP-C RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV REB GNT CEV | MT בְזֹה־נֶפֶשׁ | LXX "τὸν φαυλίζοντα τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בָזָה vb. despise Qal despise, regard with contempt
Niph. despised
vile, worthless
despicable, contemptible
Hiph. so as to cause to despise their lords
base