zanach · reject

What it means

zanach (זָנַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “reject”.

Cast off, push someone away from oneself. Said of God when he puts away his people or a person, and of people when they reject something.

How to say it

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

1. To cast someone away, no longer wanting him near.
2. To give off a rotten smell, like stagnant water.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rejected ×8
• reject ×5
• has rejected ×3
• you have rejected us ×2
• will stink ×1
• you have removed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×10
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×3
• Hosea×2
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  And you, Solomon my son, know the Elohim of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul; for YHWH seeks out all hearts and understands every inclination of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

• 2 Chronicles 11:14

  For the Levites abandoned their pasturelands and their possession and went to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 29:19

  And all the utensils that King Ahaz rejected during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and sanctified; and there they are before the altar of YHWH.”

• Psalms 43:2

  For you are the Elohim of my stronghold; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

• Psalms 44:9

  But you have rejected us and humiliated us, and you do not go out with our armies.

• Psalms 44:23

  Wake up! Why do you sleep, Adonai? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

• Psalms 60:1

  For the director. On The Lily of the Testimony. A Miktam of David, for teaching, when he fought against Aram-naharaim and against Aram of Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand. Elohim, you have rejected us, you have broken through us; you have been angry; restore us.

• Psalms 60:10

  Is it not you, Elohim, who have rejected us, and who do not go out, Elohim, with our armies?

• Psalms 74:1

  A maskil of Asaph. Why, Elohim, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

• Psalms 77:7

  Will Adonai reject forever, and never again take pleasure?

• Psalms 88:14

  Why, YHWH, do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

• Psalms 89:38

  But you have rejected and despised; you have become enraged with your anointed.

• Psalms 108:11

  Have not you, Elohim, rejected us? And you do not go out, Elohim, with our armies.

• Isaiah 19:6

  And the rivers will stink; the canals of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

• Lamentations 2:7

  Adonai has rejected his altar; he has repudiated his sanctuary; he has handed over into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have raised their voice in the house of YHWH as on a day of appointed feast.

• Lamentations 3:17

  And you have removed from peace my soul; I have forgotten what is good.

• Lamentations 3:31

  For Adonai does not reject forever.

• Hosea 8:3

  Israel has rejected the good; an enemy will pursue him.

• Hosea 8:5

  He has rejected your calf, Samaria; my anger burns against them; how long will they not be capable of innocence?

• Zechariah 10:6

  And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save, and I will bring them back, for I have had mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not rejected them; for I am YHWH their Elohim, and I will answer them.