baza · despise

What it means

baza (בָּזָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “despise”.

Think little of.

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 look down on someone or something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• despised ×28
• despise ×5
• contemptible ×3
• despises ×3
• She despises you ×2
• despising ×1
• it was beneath him ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×2
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Daniel×1
• Obadiah×1
• Malachi×5

• Genesis 25:34

  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, rose, and went away. So Esau despised the birthright.

• Numbers 15:31

  Because he has despised the word of YHWH and broken his commandment, that person shall certainly be cut off; their iniquity is on them.

• 1 Samuel 2:30

  Therefore declares YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before me forever; but now declares YHWH: Far be it from me! For those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

• 1 Samuel 10:27

  But wicked men said, “How can this one save us?” And they despised him and did not bring him tribute. But he was like one keeping silent.

• 1 Samuel 17:42

  The Philistine looked and saw David, and he despised him, for he was a young man, and ruddy, with a beautiful appearance.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  And as the ark of YHWH was coming into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before YHWH; and she despised him in her heart.

• 2 Samuel 12:9

  Why have you despised the word of YHWH, doing evil in my eyes? Uriah the Hittite you struck with the sword, and his wife you took for yourself as wife, and him you killed with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 12:10

  And now the sword shall not depart from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

• 2 Kings 19:21

  This is the word that YHWH has spoken against him: “She despises you, she mocks you, the virgin, daughter of Zion; behind you she shakes her head, the daughter of Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 15:29

  And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of YHWH was coming to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

• 2 Chronicles 36:16

  But they kept mocking the messengers of Elohim, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the fury of YHWH rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, and they mocked us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

• Esther 1:17

  For the matter of the queen will go out to all the women, making their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when they say, ‘King Ahasuerus said to bring Vashti the queen before him, and she did not come.’

• Esther 3:6

  But in his eyes it was beneath him to stretch out his hand against Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai; and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.

• Psalms 15:4

  in whose eyes the rejected one is despised, but those who fear YHWH he honors; he swears to his own hurt and does not change;

• Psalms 22:6

  But I am a worm and not a man, a reproach of human beings and despised by the people.

• Psalms 22:24

  For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him; and when he cried for help to him, he heard.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of Elohim are a broken spirit; a broken and crushed heart, Elohim, you will not despise.

• Psalms 69:33

  For YHWH hears the needy, and his prisoners he does not despise.

• Psalms 73:20

  Like a dream on waking, Adonai, when you rouse yourself you will despise their image.

• Psalms 102:17

  He has turned to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

• Psalms 119:141

  Small I am and despised; your precepts I have not forgotten.

• Proverbs 14:2

  Whoever walks in his uprightness fears YHWH, but one devious in his ways despises him.

• Proverbs 15:20

  A wise son makes a father glad, but a senseless man despises his mother.

• Proverbs 19:16

  Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his soul; whoever despises his ways will die.

• Ecclesiastes 9:16

  And I said, “Better is wisdom than might, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heard.”

• Isaiah 37:22

  this is the word that YHWH has spoken against him: “She despises you, she mocks you, the virgin, daughter of Zion; behind you she shakes her head, the daughter of Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 53:3

  Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and acquainted with sickness; and like one from whom the face is hidden, despised, and we did not esteem him.

• Jeremiah 22:28

  Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel, or an object in which there is no delight? Why have they been hurled out, he and his offspring, and cast into the land that they have not known?

• Jeremiah 49:15

  For look, small I have made you among the nations, despised among human beings.

• Ezekiel 16:59

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: I will deal with you as you have done, you who despised the imprecation by breaking a covenant.

• Ezekiel 17:16

  As I live, declares Adonai YHWH, surely in the place of the king who made him king, whose imprecation he despised and whose covenant he broke, with him in the midst of Babylon he will die.

• Ezekiel 17:18

  And he despised the imprecation by breaking the covenant; and look, he had given his hand, and has done all these things; he will not escape.’

• Ezekiel 17:19

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘As I live, surely my imprecation that he despised and my covenant that he broke, I will put it on his head.

• Ezekiel 22:8

  My holy things you have despised, and my Sabbaths you have profaned.

• Daniel 11:21

  And there will stand up in his place a despised one, on whom they have not conferred the splendor of the kingdom; but he will come in a time of ease and seize the kingdom by intrigues.

• Obadiah 1:2

  Look, small I have made you among the nations; despised are you greatly.

• Malachi 1:6

  A son honors his father, and a slave his master. And if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says YHWH Tsevaot to you, priests who despise my name. And you say, “How have we despised your name?”

• Malachi 1:7

  You offer on my altar defiled bread. And you say, “How have we defiled you?” In that you say, “The table of YHWH is contemptible.”

• Malachi 1:12

  But you profane it when you say, “The table of Adonai is defiled, and its fruit, its food, is contemptible.”

And 3 more times.