בּוּזbûwz

contempt

Pronunciation: booz · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H937

Meanings

1. contempt (Job 31:34; Psalms 123:3; Psalms 123:4)

2. judicial (Job 12:21; Psalms 107:40)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

Genesis 38:23 “Then let her keep the things I gave her,” Judah said. “I sent the young goat as we agreed, but you couldn’t find her. We’d be the laughingstock of the village if we went back again to look for her.”
Job 12:5 People who are at ease mock those in trouble. They give a push to people who are stumbling.
Job 12:21 He pours disgrace upon princes and disarms the strong.
Job 31:34 Have I feared the crowd or the contempt of the masses, so that I kept quiet and stayed indoors?
Psalms 31:18 Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.
Psalms 107:40 the Lord pours contempt on their princes, causing them to wander in trackless wastelands.

See every passage

Genesis 38:23
Job 12:5, 12:21, 31:34
Psalms 31:18, 107:40, 119:22, 123:3, 123:4
Proverbs 12:8, 18:3

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).