Vile
נְמִבְזֶהStrong’s H5240nemivzeh (ne-miv-zeh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nemivzeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “despised”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.”
Meaning
- Vile, despised, disdained, held in contempt
How it's translated
- despised 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נְמִבְזֶה nemivzeh · vile
vile, despised, disdained, held in contempt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “despised” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESPISED, participle passive
Contemned; disdained; abhorred.
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.