בָּזָה

Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 25:34

• וַיִּ֥בֶזvaiyivezHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he despised

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

Numbers 15:31

• בָּזָ֔הbazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has despised

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

1 Samuel 2:30

• וּבֹזַ֥יuvozaiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and despise me

But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.

1 Samuel 10:27

• וַיִּבְזֻ֕הוּvaiyivzuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they despised him

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.

1 Samuel 17:42

• וַיִּבְזֵ֑הוּvaiyivzehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he despised him

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6:16

• וַתִּ֥בֶזvativezHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she despised

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 12:9

• בָּזִ֣יתָ׀bazitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you despised

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

2 Samuel 12:10

• בְזִתָ֔נִיvezitaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you despised me

This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

2 Kings 19:21

• בָּזָ֨הbazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has despised

As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.

1 Chronicles 15:29

• וַתִּ֥בֶזvativezHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she despised

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

2 Chronicles 36:16

• וּבוֹזִ֣יםuvozimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and despising

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 2:19

• וַיִּבְז֖וּvaiyivzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they despised

For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’

Esther 1:17

• לְהַבְז֥וֹתlehavzotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make despicable

And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.

Esther 3:6

• וַיִּ֣בֶזvaiyivezHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he despised

who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

Psalms 15:4

• נִבְזֶ֤ה׀nivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despised

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

Psalms 22:6

• וּבְז֥וּיuvezuiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and despised of

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Psalms 22:24

• בָזָ֨הvazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has despised

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Psalms 51:17

• תִבְזֶֽה׃tivzehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you despise

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Psalms 69:33

• בָזָֽה׃vazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he despises

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

Psalms 73:20

• תִּבְזֶֽה׃tivzehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will despise

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

Psalms 102:17

• בָ֝זָ֗הvazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has despised

I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

Psalms 119:141

• וְנִבְזֶ֑הvenivzehconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and despised

He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.

Proverbs 14:2

• בּוֹזֵֽהוּ׃bozehuverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: despising him

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

• בּוֹזֶ֥הbozehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despising

He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

Proverbs 19:16

• בּוֹזֵ֖הbozehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: despises

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

Ecclesiastes 9:16

• בְּזוּיָ֔הbezuyahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: despised

this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

Isaiah 37:22

• בָּזָ֨הbazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has despised

Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”

Isaiah 49:7

• לִבְזֹה־livzoh-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to despise

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Isaiah 53:3

• נִבְזֶה֙nivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despised
• נִבְזֶ֖הnivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despised

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

Jeremiah 22:28

• נִבְזֶ֜הnivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despised

“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.

Jeremiah 49:15

• בָּז֖וּיbazuiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: despised

For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

Ezekiel 16:59

• בָּזִ֥יתbazitverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you despised

‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

Ezekiel 17:16

• בָּזָה֙bazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he despised

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

Ezekiel 17:18

• וּבָזָ֥הuvazahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he despised

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

Ezekiel 17:19

• בָּזָ֔הbazahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he despised

You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22:8

• בָּזִ֑יתbazitverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have despised

In his place a despicable person will arise; royal honors will not be given to him, but he will come in a time of peace and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

Daniel 11:21

• נִבְזֶ֔הnivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a despicable

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

Obadiah 1:2

• בָּז֥וּיbazuiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: despised

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Malachi 1:6

• בּוֹזֵ֣יbozeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: despise
• בָזִ֖ינוּvazinuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: have we despised

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

Malachi 1:7

• נִבְזֶ֥הnivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despicable

“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’

Malachi 1:12

• נִבְזֶ֥הnivzehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: despicable

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

Malachi 2:9

• נִבְזִ֥יםnivzimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: despised