בָּזָהbâzâh

Meanings

Same root

• בָּזֹהbâzôh · H960scorned
• בִּזָּיוֹןbizzâyôwn · H963disesteem
• בִּזְיוֹתְיָהbizyôwthᵉyâh · H964Bizjothjah, a place in Palestine
• נְמִבְזֶהnᵉmibzeh · H5240despised

Where it appears

Appears 44 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate the meal, then got up and left. He showed contempt for his rights as the firstborn.
• Numbers 15:31 Since they have treated the Lord’s word with contempt and deliberately disobeyed his command, they must be completely cut off and suffer the punishment for their guilt.”
• 1 Samuel 2:30 “Therefore, the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I promised that your branch of the tribe of Levi would always be my priests. But I will honor those who honor me, and I will despise those who think lightly of me.
• 1 Samuel 10:27 But there were some scoundrels who complained, “How can this man save us?” And they scorned him and refused to bring him gifts. But Saul ignored them. [Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the people of Gad and Reuben who lived east of the Jordan River. He gouged out the right eye of each of the Israelites living there, and he didn’t allow anyone to come and rescue them. In fact, of all the Israelites east of the Jordan, there wasn’t a single one whose right eye Nahash had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites, and they had settled in Jabesh-gilead.]
• 1 Samuel 17:42 sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy.
• 2 Samuel 6:16 But as the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for him.