בָּזָה (ba.zah) means “to despise” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: baw-zaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
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)
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a primitive root; to disesteem
KJV glosses: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), [phrase] think to scorn, vile person.
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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 |
|---|---|
| despised | 4 |
| despise | 3 |
| despises | 3 |
| he despised | 3 |
| and despised | 2 |
| and she despised | 2 |
| he was despised | 2 |
| is contemptible | 2 |
| you have despised | 2 |
| a despicable person | 1 |
| a despised | 1 |
| and despise | 1 |
| and ridiculed | 1 |
| but he who is careless | 1 |
| but those who despise me | 1 |
| causing them to despise | 1 |
| despises him | 1 |
| despising | 1 |
| have we despised | 1 |
| he despised him | 1 |
| he has despised | 1 |
| he scorned the notion of | 1 |
| man is despised | 1 |
| so they despised him | 1 |
| then have you despised | 1 |
| was despised | 1 |
| who despise | 1 |
| who despises | 1 |
| you despised | 1 |
| you have despised me | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and despised | 4 |
| despised | 4 |
| and she despised | 2 |
| contemptible | 2 |
| despiseth | 2 |
| hath despised | 2 |
| thou hast despised | 2 |
| a despised | 1 |
| a vile person | 1 |
| and despiseth | 1 |
| and not despise | 1 |
| and they that despise | 1 |
| because he hath despised | 1 |
| for he hath not despised | 1 |
| from him he was despised | 1 |
| he despised | 1 |
| he disdained | 1 |
| he is despised | 1 |
| he that despiseth | 1 |
| is contemned | 1 |
| scorn | 1 |
| seeing he despised | 1 |
| so that they shall despise | 1 |
| that despise | 1 |
| that he hath despised | 1 |
| thou shalt despise | 1 |
| thou wilt not despise | 1 |
| us and they despised | 1 |
| wherefore hast thou despised | 1 |
| wherein have we despised | 1 |
| which hast despised | 1 |
| you contemptible | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 42 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Read word by wordHe shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
Read word by wordTherefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
Read word by wordBut some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.
Read word by wordWhen the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
Read word by wordAs the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
Read word by wordWhy then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Read word by wordNow, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
Read word by wordThis is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
Read word by wordAs the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
Read word by wordBut they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
Read word by wordBut when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Read word by wordFor the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’
Read word by wordAnd when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
Read word by wordwho despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
Read word by wordBut I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.7
For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.25
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 51.19
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 69.34
Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
Read word by wordHe will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.18
I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
Read word by wordHe who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
Read word by wordA wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Read word by wordHe who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
Read word by wordAnd I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
Read word by wordthis is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
Read word by wordThus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
Read word by wordHe was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Read word by wordIs this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
Read word by word“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.
Read word by wordFor this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Read word by word‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
Read word by wordHe despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
Read word by wordYou have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Read word by wordIn his place a despicable person will arise; royal honors will not be given to him, but he will come in a time of peace and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
Read word by word“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
Read word by word“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
Read word by wordBy presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
Read word by word“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
Read word by word“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
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