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# בּוּזָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H939

**contempt** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

contempt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/939/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּזָה: n.f. contempt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/939/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. contempt Ne 3:36 הָיִינוּ בּ׳ we have become (an object of) contempt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: contempt (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.36/#tree)

שְׁמַ֤ע אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ כִּֽי־הָיִ֣ינוּ בוּזָ֔ה וְהָשֵׁ֥ב חֶרְפָּתָ֖ם אֶל־רֹאשָׁ֑ם וּתְנֵ֥ם לְבִזָּ֖ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁבְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* hear our.God O (dm) we.are contempt and return reproach their to head their.own and give them to plunder in a.land of.captivity

*JPS 1917:* Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/939.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/939/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).