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# בִּזָּיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H963

**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/1489/963/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּזָּיוֹן: contempt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/963/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] contempt Est 1:18 (ב׳ וָקָ֑צֶף).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Esther 1:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.18/#tree)

וְֽהַיּ֨וֹם הַזֶּ֜ה תֹּאמַ֣רְנָה ׀ שָׂר֣וֹת פָּֽרַס־וּמָדַ֗י אֲשֶׁ֤ר שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה לְכֹ֖ל שָׂרֵ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וּכְדַ֖י בִּזָּי֥וֹן וָקָֽצֶף׃

*Word for word:* and the day (the) this they.will.say the.noble.ladies of.Persia and Media who they.have.heard (et) the.matter of the.queen to all the.officials of the.king and \[will be\].as.enough contempt and anger

*JPS 1917:* And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes. So will there arise enough contempt and wrath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/963.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/963/): 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).