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Contempt

בּוּזָהStrong’s H0939

buzah (bu-zah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Buzah is the Hebrew word usually translated “contempt”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:”
Nehemiah 4:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. Contempt
How it's translated
  • contempt 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Nehemiah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    בּוּזָה buzah · contempt

    contempt

    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.]

    1. 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.
    2. The state of being despised; whence in a scriptural sense, shame, disgrace.“Some shall awake to everlasting contempt” Daniel 12:2
    3. 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.