Hebrew verb · H3988
מָאַס
maasmaw-as'
to reject; to flow
76 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâʼaç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3988is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 68spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3988
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
The King James renders it: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, vile person.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maas is rendered "to reject; to flow". It stands 76 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to reject".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
- The Greek text spells it sixty-eight different ways.
The first use
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
Leviticus 26:15תִּמְאָ֔סוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to reject, and to flow.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to rejectStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLeviticus 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances… |
| to flowStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- you have rejected7
- they have rejected6
- I reject4
- and he rejected3
- he has rejected3
- he rejects3
- rejecting3
- they rejected3
- and he has rejected you2
- and they rejected2
- I have rejected him2
- I rejected2
and 31 more, 76 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָאַר | maar | to malign | Uses4 |
The words it stands beside
All 76, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
68 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מָאָ֔סוּ5
- אֶמְאַ֗ס2
- מָאַ֣ס2
- מָאָ֗סוּ2
- מָאַ֗סְתָּ2
- אֶמְאַ֥ס1
- אֶמְאַ֣ס1
- אֶמְאַ֨ס1
- הֲמָאֹ֨ס1
- וְאֶמְאָֽסְאךָ֙1
- וַיִּמְאַ֥ס1
- וַ֭יִּמְאַס1
and 56 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural12HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular6HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular5HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp3Hc/Vqw3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute3HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural3HVqp2mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp2ms2Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular2HVNrmsa
Leviticus
three uses
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
- תִּמְאָ֔סוּtimasuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will reject
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
- מָאָ֔סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they rejected
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
- מְאַסְתִּ֤יםmeastimverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will reject them
Numbers
two uses
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
- מְאַסְתֶּ֤םmeastemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have rejected
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
- מְאַסְתֶּ֖םmeastemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have rejected
Judges
one use
“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
- מָאַ֣סְתָּהmaastahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you rejected
1 Samuel
nine uses
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
- מָאָ֔סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rejected
- מָאֲס֖וּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rejected
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
- מְאַסְתֶּ֣םmeastemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have rejected
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
- מָאַ֙סְתָּ֙maastaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have rejected
- וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֖vaiyimasekhaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he has rejected you
“I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”
- מָאַ֙סְתָּה֙maastahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have rejected
- וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֣vaiyimasekhaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he has rejected you
Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”
- מְאַסְתִּ֔יוmeastivverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I have rejected him
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
- מְאַסְתִּ֑יהוּmeastihuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I have rejected him
2 Kings
three uses
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- וַיִּמְאֲס֣וּvaiyimasuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they rejected
So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
- וַיִּמְאַ֨סvaiyimasHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he rejected
For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
- וּ֠מָאַסְתִּיumaastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will reject
Job
twelve uses
Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- תִּמְאָֽס׃timasverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you reject
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃vaiyimaesHc/VNw3mstagged: and it has run
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- מָ֭אַסְתִּיmaastiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I reject
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- יִמְאַס־yimas-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he rejects
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- אֶמְאַ֥סʾemasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I reject
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
- תִ֭מְאַסtimasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will reject
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
- מָ֣אֲסוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they reject
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- מָאַ֥סְתִּיmaastiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I rejected
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
- אֶמְאַ֗סʾemasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I rejected
Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
- מָאַ֗סְתָּmaastaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have rejected
Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- יִמְאָ֑סyimasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he rejects
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- אֶמְאַ֣סʾemasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I reject
Psalms
nine uses
who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
- נִמְאָ֗סnimasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a rejected
Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- יִמְאָֽס׃yimasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he rejects
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
- מְאָסָֽם׃measamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he has rejected them
May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
- יִמָּאֲס֣וּyimaasuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they flow
On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
- וַיִּמְאַ֥סvaiyimasHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he rejected
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
- וַ֭יִּמְאַסvaiyimasHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he rejected
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
- וַתִּמְאָ֑סvatimasHc/Vqw2mstagged: and you have rejected
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
- וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּvaiyimasuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they rejected
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- מָאֲס֣וּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they rejected
Proverbs
two uses
My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- תִּמְאָ֑סtimasverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you reject
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
- מוֹאֵ֣סmoesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: rejecting
Isaiah
ten uses
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- מָאֲס֗וּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rejected
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
- מָא֥וֹסmaosverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: to reject
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
- מָאֹ֥סmaosverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: to reject
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
- מָאַס֙maasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has rejected
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
- מָֽאָסְכֶ֖םmaasekhemverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: have rejected you
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- יִמְאָס֗וּןyimasunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will reject
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
- מָאַ֣סmaasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone has rejected
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
- מֹאֵ֞סmoesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: rejects
I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
- מְאַסְתִּֽיךָ׃meastikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have rejected you
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
- תִמָּאֵ֖סtimaesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she is rejected
Jeremiah
twelve uses
Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
- מָאַ֤סmaasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has rejected
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- מָאֲסוּ־maasu-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rejected
Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
- וַיִּמְאֲסוּ־vaiyimasu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have rejected
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
- נִמְאָ֔סnimasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: rejected
- מָאַ֥סmaasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has rejected
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
- מָאַ֣סmaasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has rejected
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
- מָאָ֔סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rejected
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- הֲמָאֹ֨סhamaosquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: ¿ really to reject
- מָאַ֜סְתָּmaastaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you rejected
This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
- אֶמְאַ֨סʾemasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will reject
“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- וַיִּמְאָסֵ֑םvaiyimasemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he has rejected them
then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
- אֶמְאַ֗סʾemasverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will reject
Lamentations
two uses
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- מָאֹ֣סmaosverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to reject
- מְאַסְתָּ֔נוּmeastanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: you have rejected us
Ezekiel
six uses
But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
- מָאָ֔סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have rejected
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- מָאָ֗סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they rejected
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
- מָאָ֗סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had rejected
For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
- מָאָ֔סוּmaasuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had rejected
it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
- מֹאֶ֥סֶתmoesetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rejecting
Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
- מֹאֶ֖סֶתmoesetverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: rejecting
Hosea
three uses
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
- מָאַ֗סְתָּmaastaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have rejected
- וְאֶמְאָֽסְאךָ֙veemasekhaHC/Vqu1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will reject you
My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- יִמְאָסֵ֣םyimasemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will reject them
Amos
two uses
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
- מָאֳסָ֞םmoosamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: have rejected they
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- מָאַ֖סְתִּיmaastiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I reject
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How the numbers are counted
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