To dishonor
קָלָהStrong’s H7034qalah (qa-lah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “dishonored”, “dishonors” and “lightly esteemed”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.”
Meaning
- To disgrace, dishonour, be lightly esteemed, be dishonoured, be despised(Niphal) to be dishonoured, be despised, be lightly esteemed · (Hiphil) to treat with contempt, dishonour, treat shamefully
How it's translated
- and he will be dishonored 1
- dishonors 1
- and lightly esteemed 1
- a lightly esteemed 1
- and the lightly esteemed 1
- and it will be lightly esteemed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- 1 Samuel 18:23And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
- Proverbs 12:9He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
- Isaiah 3:5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
- Isaiah 16:14But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Hebrew dictionary
קָלָה qalah · to dishonor
1) to disgrace, dishonour, be lightly esteemed, be dishonoured, be despised 1a) (Niphal) to be dishonoured, be despised, be lightly esteemed 1b) (Hiphil) to treat with contempt, dishonour, treat shamefully
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dishonor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISHONOR, noun
Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation.
All definitions and other forms of “dishonor”
DISHONOR, verb transitive
- To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation.
- To treat with indignity.
- To violate the chastity of; to debauch.
- To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, to dishonor a bill of exchange.
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.