Hebrew noun (masculine) · H937
בּוּז
buzbooz
contempt
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bûwz
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H937is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H937
disrespect
The King James renders it: contempt(-uously), despised, shamed.
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
buz is rendered "contempt". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:23“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
Genesis 38:23לָב֑וּז
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- contempt5
- and contempt2
- into contempt2
- and contempt of1
- the contempt1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בּוּשׁ | bush | be ashamed | Uses127 |
| בּוּז | buz | to despise | Uses12 |
| בּוּס | bus | to trample | Uses12 |
| בּוּץ | buts | fine linen | Uses8 |
| בּוּשָׁה | bushah | shame | Uses4 |
| בּוּךְ | buk | to perplex | Uses3 |
| בּוּל | bul | produce | Uses2 |
| בּוּזִי | Buzi | Buzite | Uses2 |
| בּוּל | Bul | Bul | Uses1 |
| בּוּר | bur | to explain | Uses1 |
| בּוּת | buth | to lodge | Uses1 |
| בּוּזָה | buzah | contempt | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- בּ֭וּז3
- בּ֑וּז1
- בֽוּז׃1
- הַ֝בּ֗וּז1
- וָב֑וּז1
- וּבוּז־1
- וָבֽוּז׃1
- לָב֑וּז1
- לָבֽוּז׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
- לָב֑וּזlavuzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into contempt
Job
three uses
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
- בּ֭וּזbuznoun · masculine singulartagged: contempt
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
- בּ֭וּזbuznoun · masculine singulartagged: contempt
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
- וּבוּז־uvuz-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and contempt of
Psalms
five uses
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
- וָבֽוּז׃vavuzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and contempt
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- בּ֭וּזbuznoun · masculine singulartagged: contempt
Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.
- וָב֑וּזvavuzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and contempt
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
- בֽוּז׃vuznoun · masculine singulartagged: contempt
We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- הַ֝בּ֗וּזhabuzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the contempt
Proverbs
two uses
A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.
- לָבֽוּז׃lavuzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into contempt
With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.
- בּ֑וּזbuznoun · masculine singulartagged: contempt
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 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.