Contempt
נְאָצָהStrong’s H5007neatsah (ne-a-tsah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neatsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “insult”, “blasphemies” and “insults your”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.”
Meaning
- Contempt, contumely
How it's translated
- and insult 2
- blasphemies 2
- insults your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 9:18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
- Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Isaiah 37:3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
- Ezekiel 35:12And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Hebrew dictionary
נְאָצָה neatsah · contempt
contempt, contumely Another spelling of ne.a.tsah (נֶאָצָה "contempt" H5007B)
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.