Hebrew - English Dictionary
H3988 - Contemn
| Strong's No.: | H3988 | 
| Hebrew: | מָאַס | 
| Transliteration: | mâʼaç | 
| Phonetic: | maw-as' | 
| Word Origin: | A primitive root | 
| Bible Usage: | {abhor} cast away ({off}) {contemn} {despise} {disdain} (become) loathe ({-some}) melt {away} {refuse} {reject} {reprobate} X-(idiom) {utterly} vile person. | 
| Strongs Definition:  | to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear  | 
| Brown Driver Biggs Definition:  | 1. to reject, despise, refuse a. (Qal) 1. to reject, refuse 2. to despise b. (Niphal) to be rejected 2. (Niphal) to flow, run  | 
| Bible References:
                                     Contemn  | 
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| Translation Occurrences:  | 
                                
                                         
                                            abhor ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            abhorred ( 2 )
                                         
                                        
                                            abhorreth ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            away ( 8 )
                                         
                                        
                                            contemn ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            contemneth ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            despise ( 9 )
                                         
                                        
                                            despised ( 12 )
                                         
                                        
                                            despiseth ( 3 )
                                         
                                        
                                            disdained ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            loathe ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            loathsome ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            off ( 3 )
                                         
                                        
                                            person ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            refuse ( 3 )
                                         
                                        
                                            refused ( 5 )
                                         
                                        
                                            refuseth ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            reject ( 1 )
                                         
                                        
                                            rejected ( 18 )
                                         
                                        
                                            Reprobate ( 1 )
                                         
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                    Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
            by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.