To disown
נָאַרStrong’s H5010naar (na-ar)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naar is the Hebrew word usually translated “have repudiated” and “has repudiated”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to abhor, spurn
How it's translated
- you have repudiated 1
- he has repudiated 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
נָאַר naar · to disown
(Piel) to abhor, spurn
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “disown” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISOWN, verb transitive
[dis and own.]
- To deny; not to own; to refuse to acknowledge as belonging to ones self.
- To deny; not to allow.
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.