zadon · presumption, arrogance

What it means

zadon (זָדוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “presumption, arrogance”.

Daring to act on one's own against what was commanded.

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. Doing as one pleases, scorning what is commanded.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• insolence ×7
• arrogance ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• Proverbs×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Obadiah×1

• Deuteronomy 17:12

  And the man who acts with arrogance so as not to listen to the priest who stands to minister there to YHWH your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

• Deuteronomy 18:22

  When the prophet speaks in the name of YHWH and the word does not come about or come true, that is the word that YHWH has not spoken; with arrogance the prophet has spoken it; you shall not be afraid of him.

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men, and the anger of Eliab burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left that little flock in the wilderness? I know your arrogance and the evil of your heart: for in order to see the war you have come down.”

• Proverbs 11:2

  Insolence comes, and disgrace comes; but with the modest is wisdom.

• Proverbs 13:10

  Only through insolence comes strife, but with those who take counsel is wisdom.

• Proverbs 21:24

  Insolent, arrogant, “scoffer” is his name, who acts with the fury of insolence.

• Jeremiah 49:16

  Your terror has deceived you, the insolence of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make high like the eagle your nest, from there I will bring you down, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 50:31

  Look, I am against you, Insolence, declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot; for your day has come, the time that I punish you.

• Jeremiah 50:32

  And Insolence will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to raise it up; and I will kindle fire in its cities, and it will consume all that is around it.

• Ezekiel 7:10

  Look, the day! Look, it is coming! The turn has gone out, the rod has blossomed, insolence has budded.

• Obadiah 1:3

  The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, in the height of his dwelling, who says in his heart, “Who will bring me down to the earth?”