Scorn
שְׁאָטStrong’s H7589sheat (she-at)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheat is the Hebrew word usually translated “scorn your”, “scorn” and “scorn of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;”
Meaning
- Despite, contempt
How it's translated
- scorn your 1
- with scorn 1
- with scorn of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 25:15Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
- Ezekiel 36:5Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁאָט sheat · scorn
despite, contempt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scorn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCORN, noun
- Extreme contempt; that disdain which springs from a person's opinion of the meanness of an object, and a consciousness or belief of his own superiority or worth.“He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone” Esther 3:6
- A subject of extreme contempt, disdain or derision; that which is treated with contempt.“Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us” Psalms 44:13“They laughed us to scorn” Nehemiah 2:19
All definitions and other forms of “scorn”
SCORN, verb transitive
- to hold in extreme contempt; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. job. 16.“Surely he scorneth the scorner; but he giveth grace to the lowly” Proverbs 3:34
- to think unworth; to disdain.
- To slight; to disregard; to neglect.
SCORN, verb intransitive
To scorn at, to scoff at; to treat with contumely, derision or reproach. obsolete
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.