מָאַסmâʼaç

מָאַס: reject

Pronunciation: maw-as' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3988

Meanings

Qal: cstr (Isaiah 8:6; Psalms 53:6; Jeremiah 14:19)

1. reject, refuse

2. despise (Amos 5:21; Job 19:18; Job 9:21)

Niph`al: be rejected (Isaiah 54:6; Jeremiah 6:30; Psalms 15:4)

מָאַס: Niph`al: flow, run (Job 7:5; Psalms 58:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 76 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 26:15 and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,
  • Leviticus 26:43 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.
  • Leviticus 26:44 “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the Lord their God.
  • Numbers 11:20 You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the Lord, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
  • Numbers 14:31 “‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.
  • Judges 9:38 Then Zebul turned on him and asked, “Now where is that big mouth of yours? Wasn’t it you that said, ‘Who is Abimelech, and why should we be his servants?’ The men you mocked are right outside the city! Go out and fight them!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).