בָּזָה bazah

Hebrew word for “to despise” · Strong’s H959 · used 44 times in 42 verses

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Meaning

1) to despise, hold in contempt, disdain;

How it is translated

Glosses given for bazah in context, with how often each is used:

• despised 21
• has despised 5
• despising 3
• despise 2
• despicable 2
• those who despise 1
• have you despised 1
• make despicable 1
• despises 1
• will despise 1
• one who despises 1
• have despised 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 17 (3), Malachi 1 (3), 2 Samuel 12 (2), Psalms 22 (2), Genesis 25 (1), Numbers 15 (1), 1 Samuel 2 (1), 1 Samuel 10 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), 2 Samuel 6 (1)

Forms

• בזה 8
• נבזה 7
• בזית 3
• ויבז 2
• ויבזהו 2
• ותבז 2
• תבזה 2
• בוזה 2
• בזוי 2
• ובזי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with bazah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אָלָה alah “oath” 4
• פָּרַר parar “to break” 4
• דָּבָר davar “word” 8
• בְּרִית berit “covenant” 5
• לָעַג laag “to mock” 3
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 5
• אֲנִי ani “I” 5
• כָּבֵד kavad “to honor” 3
• גָּאַל gaal “to defile” 2
• זֶה zeh “this” 5
• בַּת bat “daughter” 4
• ךָּ ka “you” 4

Key verses

The verses using bazah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 2:30 — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be…
• 1 Samuel 10:27 — But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
• 2 Samuel 12:9 — Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife…
• 2 Chronicles 36:16 — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was…
• Psalms 15:4 — In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
• Psalms 22:6 — But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
• Psalms 51:17 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
• Isaiah 37:22 — This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of…
• Isaiah 49:7 — Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall…
• Isaiah 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him…
• Malachi 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of…
• Malachi 2:9 — Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.