naats · spurn, despise

What it means

naats (נָאַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spurn, despise”.

Spurn, treat with contempt.

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 turn away with scorn, as from YHWH.
2. To bud into flower, to be covered with blossoms.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• spurned ×9
• spurn ×5
• despised ×3
• despise me ×2
• spurns ×2
• you have utterly scorned ×2
• blossoms ×1
• they despise ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1

• Numbers 14:11

  And YHWH said to Moses, “How long will this people spurn me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

• Numbers 14:23

  shall not see the land that I swore to their fathers; and none of those who spurn me shall see it.

• Numbers 16:30

  But if YHWH creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all that is theirs, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you shall know that these men have spurned YHWH.”

• Deuteronomy 31:20

  For I will bring them into the land that I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and be satisfied and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

• Deuteronomy 32:19

  And YHWH saw and spurned them because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

• 1 Samuel 2:17

  And the sin of the young men was very great before YHWH, for the men spurned the offering of YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 12:14

  However, because by this thing you have utterly scorned the enemies of YHWH, also the son born to you shall surely die.”

• Psalms 10:3

  For the wicked boasts of the desire of his soul, and the greedy one curses, spurns YHWH.

• Psalms 10:13

  Why does the wicked spurn Elohim? He says in his heart, “You will not demand an accounting.”

• Psalms 74:10

  How long, Elohim, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy spurn your name forever?

• Psalms 74:18

  Remember this: the enemy has reproached, YHWH, and a foolish people has spurned your name.

• Psalms 107:11

  for they had rebelled against the sayings of El, and the counsel of Elyon they had despised.

• Proverbs 1:30

  they would not accept my counsel; they spurned all my reproof.

• Proverbs 5:12

  and you say, “How I hated correction, and my heart spurned reproof!

• Proverbs 15:5

  A fool spurns the correction of his father, but whoever heeds reproof becomes shrewd.

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

• Isaiah 1:4

  Woe, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned YHWH, they have spurned the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward.

• Isaiah 5:24

  Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 52:5

  And now, what do I have here, declares YHWH, since my people have been taken for nothing? Their rulers howl, declares YHWH, and continually, all the day, my name is despised.

• Isaiah 60:14

  And they will come to you bowing low, the sons of those who afflicted you, and they will bow down at the soles of your feet, all who despised you; and they will call you “The City of YHWH, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”

• Jeremiah 14:21

  Do not spurn us for the sake of your name; do not dishonor the throne of your glory; remember, do not break your covenant with us.

• Jeremiah 23:17

  They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘YHWH has spoken: You will have peace’; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they have said, ‘No evil will come upon you.’

• Jeremiah 33:24

  “Have you not seen what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families that YHWH chose, he has rejected them’? And my people they despise, so that it is no longer a nation in their sight.

• Lamentations 2:6

  And he has done violence, as to a garden, to his booth; he has destroyed his meeting place; YHWH has made them forget in Zion appointed feast and Sabbath, and he has spurned, in the indignation of his anger, king and priest.

And 1 more times.