Contempt
בּוּזStrong’s H0937buz
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Buz is the Hebrew word usually translated “contempt” and “contempt of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.”
Meaning
- Contemptspringing from evil · springing from prosperity · springing from judgment
How it's translated
- contempt 7
- and contempt 2
- and contempt of 1
- the contempt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Job 3
- Proverbs 2
- Genesis 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 12:5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
- Job 12:21He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
- Job 31:34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Psalms 119:22Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Hebrew dictionary
בּוּז buz · contempt
1) contempt 1a) springing from evil 1b) springing from prosperity 1c) springing from judgment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “contempt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONTEMPT, noun
[Latin See Contemn.]
- The act of despising; the act of viewing or considering and treating as mean, vile and worthless; disdain; hatred of what is mean or deemed vile.
- The state of being despised; whence in a scriptural sense, shame, disgrace.“Some shall awake to everlasting contempt” Daniel 12:2
- In law, disobedience of the rules and orders of a court, which is a punishable offense.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.