בָּזָה
bâzâh · baw-zaw'
to disesteem
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to disesteem
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), [phrase] think to scorn, vile person.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to cut, to sustain › to reveal, behold
The house, what is within that works to cut, to sustain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּזָה 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
44 occurrences · 44 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and despised5 · 14%
- despised2 · 6%
- and she despised2 · 6%
- thou hast despised2 · 6%
- hath despised2 · 6%
- despiseth2 · 6%
- is contemptible2 · 6%
- because he hath despised1 · 3%
- and they that despise1 · 3%
- us? and they despised1 · 3%
- he disdained1 · 3%
- wherefore hast thou despised1 · 3%
- so that they shall despise1 · 3%
- scorn1 · 3%
- is contemned1 · 3%
- for he hath not despised1 · 3%
- thou wilt not despise1 · 3%
- and despiseth1 · 3%
- thou shalt despise1 · 3%
- and not despise1 · 3%
- but he that despiseth1 · 3%
- is despised1 · 3%
- he is despised1 · 3%
- from him; he was despised1 · 3%
- a despised1 · 3%
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.