נָאַץ
nâʼats · naw-ats'
to scorn;
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; in Ecclesiastes 12:5, by interchange for H5132 (נוּץ), to bloom
to scorn;
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: abhor, (give occasion to) blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, [idiom] great, provoke.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › strength, the leader › to pursue the straight path
The seed, life continuing of strength, the leader that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָאַץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- provoke1 · 4%
- neither shall any of them that provoked1 · 4%
- have provoked1 · 4%
- them, and provoke1 · 4%
- it, he abhorred1 · 4%
- abhorred1 · 4%
- thou hast given1 · 4%
- great occasion1 · 4%
- to blaspheme1 · 4%
- abhorreth1 · 4%
- contemn1 · 4%
- blaspheme1 · 4%
- have blasphemed1 · 4%
- and contemned1 · 4%
- they despised1 · 4%
- despised1 · 4%
- despiseth1 · 4%
- shall flourish1 · 4%
- they have provoked1 · 4%
- unto anger1 · 4%
- and despised1 · 4%
- is blasphemed1 · 4%
- unto thee; and all they that despised1 · 4%
- do not abhor1 · 4%
- unto them that despise1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.