Strong's Hebrew · H959
H959 bâzâh
בָּזָה
baw-zaw'
to despise
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bâzâh appears 44 times in Scripture, including Genesis 25:34 and Numbers 15:31. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to disesteem
In the King James Version
despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), think to scorn, vile person.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 44 times in Scripture
““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?’”
“He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.””
“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.”
““For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.”
““But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’”
“Therefore, 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.”
““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.””
“But 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.”
“By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
