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 2 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.
- Jeremiah 6:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 6:30
· BSB · 2 occurrences
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 7:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 8:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:19
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 31:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 33:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 33:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
Read word by word - Lamentations 5:22
· BSB · 2 occurrences
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 5:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 21:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.15
- Ezekiel 21:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.18
- Hosea 4:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Read word by word - Hosea 9:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Read word by word - Amos 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
Read word by word - Amos 5:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
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