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בָּזָה

ba.zah

to despise

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Strong’s H959Verb44 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he despised6

he has despised3

despised3

they despised2

she despised2

you despised2

she has despised2

is despised2

In the text

1 Samuel 17:42וַיִּבְזֵהוּ
When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
2 Samuel 6:16וַתִּבֶז
As 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.
Psalm 22:24בָזָה
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.
Isaiah 37:22בָּזָה
this 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.
Ezekiel 17:16בָּזָה
‘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.
Malachi 2:9נִבְזִים
“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.”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בָזָה vb. despise

Qal despise, regard with contempt

Niph.

1. despised

2. vile, worthless

3. despicable, contemptible

Hiph. so as to cause to despise their lords

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.