naats (to spurn) · Rightly

Meaning

To spurn, contemn, despise, abhor(Qal) to spurn, contemn · (Piel) · (Hiphil) to spurn · (Hithpolel) to be contemned

How it's translated

they have spurned 3
he spurns 2
they spurned 2
will they spurn me 1
have spurned me 1
and they will spurn me 1
and he spurned 1
they treated with contempt 1

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

Where it's used most

Psalms 5
Isaiah 4
Numbers 3
Proverbs 3
Jeremiah 3
Deuteronomy 2

10 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Numbers 14:23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Numbers 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
Deuteronomy 31:20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy 32:19And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
1 Samuel 2:17Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
2 Samuel 12:14Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

All 24 verses, by book

Numbers 3: 14:11 14:23 16:30
Deuteronomy 2: 31:20 32:19
1 Samuel 1: 2:17
2 Samuel 1: 12:14
Psalms 5: 10:3 10:13 74:10 74:18 107:11
Proverbs 3: 1:30 5:12 15:5
Ecclesiastes 1: 12:5
Isaiah 4: 1:4 5:24 52:5 60:14
Jeremiah 3: 14:21 23:17 33:24
Lamentations 1: 2:6

Hebrew dictionary

נָאַץ naats · to spurn

1) to spurn, contemn, despise, abhor 1a) (Qal) to spurn, contemn 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to spurn 1b2) to cause to contemn 1c) (Hiphil) to spurn 1d) (Hithpolel) to be contemned

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “spurn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SPURN, verb transitive

[Latin, spur, kicking.]

To kick; to drive back or away, as with the foot.
To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept.
To treat with contempt.

All definitions and other forms of “spurn”

SPURN, verb intransitive

To manifest disdain in rejecting any thing; as, to spurn at the gracious offers of pardon.
To make contemptuous opposition; to manifest disdain in resistance.
To kick or toss up the heels.

SPURN, noun

Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.