To reject
מָאַסStrong’s H3988maas (ma-as)
Appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maas is the Hebrew word usually translated “have rejected”, “reject” and “rejected”. It appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:”
Meaning
- To reject, despise, refuse(Qal) · (Niphal) to be rejected
- (Niphal) to flow, run
How it's translated
- you have rejected 7
- they have rejected 6
- i reject 4
- they rejected 3
- and he rejected 3
- he rejects 3
- rejecting 3
- he has rejected 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 12
- Isaiah 10
- Jeremiah 10
- Psalms 9
- 1 Samuel 6
- Ezekiel 6
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:43The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Leviticus 26:44And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
- Numbers 11:20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
- Numbers 14:31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
- Judges 9:38Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
- 1 Samuel 8:7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
All 69 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מָאַס maas · to reject
1) to reject, despise, refuse 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to reject, refuse 1a2) to despise 1b) (Niphal) to be rejected
מָאַס maas · to flow
(Niphal) to flow, run
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rejected” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REJECT'ED, participle passive
Thrown away; cast off; refused; slighted.
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.