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Hebrew verb · H5006

נָאַץ

naatsnaw-ats'

to spurn

25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâʼats

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5006is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5006

to scorn;

The King James renders it: abhor, (give occasion to) blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, [idiom] great, provoke.

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

naats is rendered "to spurn". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Numbers 14:11יְנַאֲצֻ֖נִי

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • they have spurned3
  • he spurns2
  • they spurned2
  • and he has spurned1
  • and he spurned1
  • and it may blossom1
  • and they will spurn me1
  • despised you1
  • has he spurned1
  • have spurned me1
  • indeed declare contemptible1
  • it spurned1

and 9 more, 25 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.

נָאַףnaaphto commit adulteryUses31
נָאַקnaaqto groanUses2
נָאַרnaarto disownUses2
נָאַםnaamto prophesyUses1

The words it stands beside

All 25, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 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

  • נִֽאֲצ֛וּ2
  • וְיָנֵ֤אץ1
  • וַיִּנְאַ֥ץ1
  • וַיִּנְאָ֑ץ1
  • וְנִ֣אֲצ֔וּנִי1
  • יְנָ֘אֵ֤ץ1
  • יִ֭נְאַץ1
  • יִנְאָצ֔וּן1
  • יְנַאֲצֻ֖נִי1
  • לִֽמְנַאֲצַ֔י1
  • מִנֹּאָֽץ׃1
  • מְנַאֲצַ֖י1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural5HVpp3cp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms2Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
  • HC/Vhu3ms1HC/Vhu3ms
  • Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp1bs1Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp1bs
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vprmpc/Sp1bs
  • verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HVpcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpi3mp/Sp1bs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpp2ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVprmpc/Sp1bs

Numbers

three uses
  • And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

    Numbers 14:11

    • יְנַאֲצֻ֖נִיyenaatzuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will they spurn me
  • not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

    Numbers 14:23

    • מְנַאֲצַ֖יmenaatzaiverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have spurned me
  • But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

    Numbers 16:30

    • נִֽאֲצ֛וּniatzuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have spurned

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

    Deuteronomy 31:20

    • וְנִ֣אֲצ֔וּנִיveniatzuniHc/Vpq3cp/Sp1bstagged: and they will spurn me
  • When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

    Deuteronomy 32:19

    • וַיִּנְאָ֑ץvaiyinatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spurned

1 Samuel

one use
  • Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.

    1 Samuel 2:17

    • נִֽאֲצוּ֙niatzuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they treated with contempt

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

    2 Samuel 12:14

    • נִאֵ֤ץnietzverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: indeed declare contemptible
    • נִאַ֙צְתָּ֙niatztaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have declared contemptible

Psalms

five uses
  • For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

    Psalms 10:3

    • נִ֘אֵ֥ץ׀nietzverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spurns
  • Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

    Psalms 10:13

    • נִאֵ֖ץnietzverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he spurned
  • How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

    Psalms 74:10

    • יְנָ֘אֵ֤ץyenaetzverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he spurn
  • Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

    Psalms 74:18

    • נִֽאֲצ֥וּniatzuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they spurned
  • because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

    Psalms 107:11

    • נָאָֽצוּ׃naatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had spurned

Proverbs

three uses
  • They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

    Proverbs 1:30

    • נָ֝אֲצ֗וּnaatzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they spurned
  • and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

    Proverbs 5:12

    • נָאַ֥ץnaatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it spurned
  • A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

    Proverbs 15:5

    • יִ֭נְאַץyinatzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spurns

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

    Ecclesiastes 12:5

    • וְיָנֵ֤אץveyanetzHC/Vhu3mstagged: and it may blossom

Isaiah

four uses
  • Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

    Isaiah 1:4

    • נִֽאֲצ֛וּniatzuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have spurned
  • 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.

    Isaiah 5:24

    • נִאֵֽצוּ׃nietzuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have spurned
  • And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

    Isaiah 52:5

    • מִנֹּאָֽץ׃minoatzverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: reviled
  • The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

    Isaiah 60:14

    • מְנַֽאֲצָ֑יִךְmenaatzayikhverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: despised you

Jeremiah

three uses
  • For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

    Jeremiah 14:21

    • תִּנְאַץ֙tinatzverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you spurn
  • They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

    Jeremiah 23:17

    • לִֽמְנַאֲצַ֔יlimnaatzaipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to despise me
  • “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.

    Jeremiah 33:24

    • יִנְאָצ֔וּןyinatzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they spurn

Lamentations

one use
  • He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

    Lamentations 2:6

    • וַיִּנְאַ֥ץvaiyinatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has spurned

The letters

Gematria 141· 951 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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