neatsa · contempt

What it means

neatsa (נְאָצָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “contempt”.

Insult: words or deeds by which someone is treated as worthless (2 Kings 19:3; Isaiah 37:3). It comes from the verb "despise."

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. Insulting words; offence.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• contempt ×4
• contemptuous words ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• 2 Kings 19:3

  They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of contempt; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

• Nehemiah 9:18

  Even when they made for themselves a calf of cast metal and said, ‘This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and committed great acts of contempt,

• Nehemiah 9:26

  But they were rebellious and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and your prophets they killed, who testified against them to turn them back to you; and they committed great acts of contempt.

• Isaiah 37:3

  They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of contempt; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

• Ezekiel 35:12

  And you will know that I, YHWH, have heard all your contemptuous words that you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate; to us they have been given as food.”