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# נָאַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5006

**contemn** — used 24 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

contemn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5006/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָאַץ: vb. contemn, spurn Hithpoʿel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5006/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. contemn, spurn (NH id., Pi.; 𝔗 נִיאוּצָא reviling);— Pf. נ׳ Pr 5:12; 3 pl. נָֽאֲצוּ Pr 1:30; נָאָ֑צוּ ψ 107:11; Impf. יִנְאַץ Pr 15:5; יִנְאָצ֑וּן Je 33:24, etc.;—contemn, subj. wicked and foolish, obj. תּוֹכַחַת Pr 1:30; 5:12; obj. מוּסָר Pr 15:5; עֵצָה ψ 107:11; Je 33:24 (obj. עַם י׳; cf. Gie); subj. י׳ Dt 32:19 Je 14:21 La 2:6. Pf. נִאֵץ ψ 10:3, 13; נִאַ֫צְתָּ 2 S 12:14, etc.; Impf. יְנָאֵץ ψ 74:10, sf. יְנַאֲצֻנִי Nu 14:11; Inf. abs. נִאֵץ (Sta§ 221) 2 S 12:14; Pt. sf. מְנָֽאֲצַי Nu 14:23; מְנַאֲצַי Je 23:17; מְנַאֲצָ֑יִךְ Is 60:14;—contemn, spurn, subj.men, obj. י׳, etc.: Nu 14:11, 23; 16:30 (all J), Dt 31:20 Is 1:4 ψ 10:3, 13 Je 23:17; obj. שֵׁם י׳ ψ 74:10, 18; אִמְרַת י׳ Is 5:24; מִנְחַת י׳ 1 S 2:17; once obj. Jerus. Is 60:14; cause to contemn (blaspheme AV RV) 2 S 12:14(×2) (but אֹיְבֵי prob. interp.; v Comm). Impf. יָנֵ֯אץ v. נצץ. Hithpoʿel Pt. כל־היום שְׁמִי מִנֹּאָץ Is 52:5 every day is my name contemned.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[those (3); they have spurned (3); he spurns (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.11/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִמְר֥וּ אִמְרֵי־אֵ֑ל וַעֲצַ֖ת עֶלְי֣וֹן נָאָֽצוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.had.rebelled.against the.words of.God and the.counsel of.the.Most.High they.had.spurned

*JPS 1917:* Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High.

[Proverbs 1:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.30/#tree)

לֹא־אָב֥וּ לַעֲצָתִ֑י נָ֝אֲצ֗וּ כָּל־תּוֹכַחְתִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* not they.yielded to advice my they.spurned all rebuke my

*JPS 1917:* They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5006.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5006/): 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).