בּוּז
buz · despise
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H936 · appears 12 times in the Bible
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buz (בּוּז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “despise”.
To despise, to think little of; to treat something or someone as worthless.
How to say it
buz
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To treat someone as worthless.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- despise ×6
- Whoever despises ×3
- contempt ×1
- despises ×1
- has despised ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 1:7
The fear of YHWH is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and correction fools despise.
- Proverbs 6:30
People do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry;
- Proverbs 11:12
Whoever despises his neighbor is lacking in sense, but a man of insight keeps silent.
- Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises the word will be ruined, but whoever fears the commandment will be rewarded.
- Proverbs 14:21
Whoever despises his neighbor sins, but whoever shows favor to the humble, happy is he.
- Proverbs 23:9
In the ears of a senseless man do not speak, for he will despise the prudence of your words.
- Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who fathered you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father and despises obedience to a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young of the eagle will eat it.
- Song of Songs 8:1
If only you were like a brother to me, who nursed at the breasts of my mother! I would find you outside, I would kiss you, and yet no one would despise me.
- Song of Songs 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers flood it; if a man gave all the wealth of his house for love, with contempt they would despise him.
- Zechariah 4:10
For who has despised the day of small things? And they will rejoice and see the stone of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of YHWH; they roam through all the earth.”
And 1 more times.