Contempt
בִּזָּיוֹןStrong’s H0963bizzavon (biz-za-von)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bizzavon is the Hebrew word usually translated “contempt”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.”
Meaning
- Contempt
How it's translated
- contempt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בִּזָּיוֹן bizzavon · 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.]
- 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.