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# נֶאָצָה

Biblical Hebrew

**contempt** — used 3 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

contempt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b6_5d0_5b8_5e6_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶאָצָה: n.f. contempt blasphemy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b6_5d0_5b8_5e6_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. contempt (toward י׳), blasphemy;—pl. נֶאָצוֹת Ne 9:18, 26 c. עָשָׂה, of Isr.; נָאָצוֹתֶיךָ Ez 35:12 of Mt. Seir, spoken against הרי ישׂראל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: blasphemies (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 9:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.18/#tree)

אַ֗ף כִּֽי־עָשׂ֤וּ לָהֶם֙ עֵ֣גֶל מַסֵּכָ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ זֶ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֶלְךָ֖ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* even (dm) they.had.made for themselves a.calf molten.metal and they.had.said this god \[is\].your who he brought.you.up from Egypt and they.had.done blasphemies great

*JPS 1917:* Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

[Ezekiel 35:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.35.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.35.12/#tree)

וְֽיָדַעְתָּ֮ כִּֽי־אֲנִ֣י יְהוָה֒ שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי ׀ אֶת־כָּל־נָאָֽצוֹתֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָמַ֛רְתָּ עַל־הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֣ר ׀ שָׁמֵ֑מוּ לָ֥נוּ נִתְּנ֖וּ לְאָכְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.know (dm).that I \[am\].Yahweh I.have.heard (et) all blasphemies your which you.have.said on the.mountains of.Israel (cmp) they.have.been.desolated to us they.have.been.given for devouring

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt know that I the LORD have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b6_5d0_5b8_5e6_5b8_5d4/): 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).