H0960 H0960
to despise, to regard with contempt
A verb meaning to despise, scorn, or hold in contempt, expressing strong disdain or low regard for something or someone. The term appears throughout Scripture describing contempt for God's word, for authority, for covenant, or for other persons. Isaiah uses the infinitive form in describing the Servant as "despised of men." The verb carries both attitudinal (internal contempt) and behavioral (treating with scorn) dimensions, often appearing in covenant-violation contexts.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Means "to be despised" in Isaiah 49:7, describing the Servant as "despised of men" and abhorred by the nation. The infinitival construction emphasizes the Servant's status as an object of contempt, rejected and scorned. This prophetic description anticipates the suffering Servant's experience of being regarded as worthless and beneath honor, a theme that reaches its climax in Isaiah 53. The verb captures both the attitude and the resulting treatment of disdain. 1×
AR["لِـ-مُحْتَقَرِ-"]·ben["-তিরস্কৃত-"]·DE["[לבזה]"]·EN["to-despised-of-"]·FR["[לבזה]"]·heb["ל-בזוי-"]·HI["तुच्छ-"]·ID["kepada-yang-dihina"]·IT["[לבזה]"]·jav["dhateng-ingkang-karemehaken-"]·KO["멸시된-"]·PT["ao-desprezado-de-"]·RU["презираемому-"]·ES["al-despreciado-de-"]·SW["kwa-aliyedharauliwa"]·TR["hor-gorulen-"]·urd["حقیر-سمجھے-گئے-"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בָּזָה vb. despise (Pal. 𝔗 בְּזָא, cf. بَزَا raise the head loftily and disdainfully)— Qal Pf. Nu 15:31 +; ��ָּזִיתָ 2 S 12:9; sf. בְּזִתָ֑נִי 2 S 12:10, etc.; Impf. וַיִּ֫בֶז Gn 25:34 Est 3:6; sf. וַיִּבְזֵהוּ 1 S 17:42; 3 fs. וַתִּבֶז 2 S 6:16 1 Ch 15:29; 2 ms. תִּבְזֶה ψ 51:19; 73:20; וַיִּבְזוּ Ne 2:19; וַיִּבְזֻהוּ 1 S 10:27; Inf. cstr. בְּזֹה Is 49:7 (Di Ew§ 150 b); Pt. act. בּוֹזֶה Pr…