TBESH · H3988A
מָאַס · ma.as · to reject
1) to reject, despise, refuse 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to reject, refuse 1a2) to despise 1b) (Niphal) to be rejected
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ma.as H3988
מָאַס (ma.as) means “to reject” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מָאַס Hebrew · H3988 76 tagged occurrences in 69 verses
Pronunciation guide: maw-as' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H3988B
מָאַס · ma.as · to flow
(Niphal) to flow, run
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
KJV glosses: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, vile person.
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How translators render H3988
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| has rejected | 5 |
| reject | 5 |
| you have rejected | 5 |
| they have rejected | 4 |
| to reject | 4 |
| rejected | 3 |
| despise | 2 |
| have rejected | 2 |
| i despise | 2 |
| they rejected | 2 |
| and festering | 1 |
| and have rejected | 1 |
| and rejected | 1 |
| and rejected him | 1 |
| and they rejected | 1 |
| are despised | 1 |
| but he despises | 1 |
| but they rejected | 1 |
| completely | 1 |
| despises | 1 |
| has despised them | 1 |
| has rejected you | 1 |
| have rejected him | 1 |
| have you rejected | 1 |
| he has rejected you | 1 |
| he rejected | 1 |
| her people have rejected | 1 |
| i despise myself | 1 |
| i have rejected | 1 |
| i have rejected him | 1 |
| i loathe my life | 1 |
| i will also reject you | 1 |
| i will reject | 1 |
| i would have refused | 1 |
| may they vanish | 1 |
| of you will reject | 1 |
| rejected you | 1 |
| scorn | 1 |
| the rejected | 1 |
| the sword despises | 1 |
| the vile | 1 |
| they despised | 1 |
| they kept rejecting | 1 |
| they reject | 1 |
| which the sword despises | 1 |
| who refuses | 1 |
| will reject them | 1 |
| you have disavowed him | 1 |
| you have utterly rejected us | 1 |
| you reject | 1 |
| you ridiculed | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| hath rejected | 4 |
| rejected | 4 |
| because thou hast rejected | 2 |
| to refuse | 2 |
| a vile person | 1 |
| abhorred | 1 |
| and abhorred | 1 |
| and become loathsome | 1 |
| and despiseth | 1 |
| and if ye shall despise | 1 |
| and they despised | 1 |
| and they rejected | 1 |
| and will cast off | 1 |
| because i have refused | 1 |
| because they despised | 1 |
| because they have cast away | 1 |
| because ye despise | 1 |
| but had despised | 1 |
| but rejected | 1 |
| but thou hast utterly | 1 |
| contemn | 1 |
| despise | 1 |
| despised | 1 |
| despiseth | 1 |
| hast thou utterly | 1 |
| hath despised | 1 |
| he abhorreth | 1 |
| he hath also rejected | 1 |
| he hath despised | 1 |
| he hath even cast them off | 1 |
| he that despiseth | 1 |
| her for they have refused | 1 |
| i despise | 1 |
| i loathe | 1 |
| i will also cast off | 1 |
| i will also reject | 1 |
| i will not cast them away | 1 |
| i would despise | 1 |
| i would have disdained | 1 |
| if i did despise | 1 |
| it contemneth | 1 |
| it whether thou refuse | 1 |
| let them melt away | 1 |
| lo they have rejected | 1 |
| moreover he refused | 1 |
| refused | 1 |
| refuseth | 1 |
| reprobate | 1 |
| seeing i have rejected | 1 |
| shall cast away | 1 |
| that thou hast despised | 1 |
| that thou shouldest despise | 1 |
| that ye have despised | 1 |
| thee and not cast thee away | 1 |
| thee but they have rejected | 1 |
| therefore despise | 1 |
| thereof because they have despised | 1 |
| they despised | 1 |
| unto thee for they have not rejected | 1 |
| when thou wast refused | 1 |
| wherefore i abhor | 1 |
| which ye have despised | 1 |
| will cast them away | 1 |
| will despise | 1 |
| will i cast away | 1 |
| will not cast away | 1 |
| with thee for thou hast rejected | 1 |
| yea they despised | 1 |
Verses containing H3988
Page 1 of 2. 69 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Leviticus 26:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
Read word by word - Numbers 11:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
Read word by word - Numbers 14:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
Read word by word - Judges 9:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 10:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:23
· BSB · 2 occurrences
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:26
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
Read word by word - Job 5:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Read word by word - Job 7:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
Read word by word - Job 7:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Read word by word - Job 8:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
Read word by word - Job 9:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
Read word by word - Job 10:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
Read word by word - Job 19:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
Read word by word - Job 30:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
Read word by word - Job 31:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
Read word by word - Job 34:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
Read word by word - Job 36:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Read word by word - Job 42:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Read word by word - Psalms 15:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
Read word by word - Psalms 36:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 36.5
- Psalms 53:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 53.6
- Psalms 58:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 58.8
- Psalms 78:59
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
Read word by word - Psalms 78:67
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
Read word by word - Psalms 89:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.39
- Psalms 106:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
Read word by word - Psalms 118:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Read word by word - Proverbs 3:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
Read word by word - Proverbs 15:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Read word by word - Isaiah 8:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
Read word by word - Isaiah 30:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
Read word by word - Isaiah 31:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
Read word by word - Isaiah 33:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
Read word by word - Isaiah 33:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
Read word by word - Isaiah 41:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
Read word by word - Isaiah 54:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 4:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
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