# בָּזָה (bazah)

Israeli respelling: ba-zah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H959. 41 Old Testament occurrences.

to disesteem

King James renderings: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), [phrase] think to scorn, vile person.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/bazah-h959

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 25:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/34) — Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthri…
- [Numbers 15:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/31) — Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be u…
- [1 Samuel 2:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/30) — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now…
- [1 Samuel 10:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/27) — But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
- [1 Samuel 17:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/42) — And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
- [2 Samuel 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/16) — And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and danc…
- [2 Samuel 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/9) — Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and h…
- [2 Samuel 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/10) — Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to…
- [2 Kings 19:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/21) — This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; t…
- [1 Chronicles 15:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/29) — And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a w…
- [2 Chronicles 36:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/16) — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his peop…
- [Nehemiah 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/19) — But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and desp…
- [Esther 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/17) — For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be repo…
- [Esther 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/6) — And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all…
- [Psalms 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/15/4) — In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
- [Psalms 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/6) — But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- [Psalms 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/24) — For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, h…
- [Psalms 51:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/17) — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
- [Psalms 69:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/33) — For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
- [Psalms 73:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/20) — As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- [Psalms 102:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/17) — He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
- [Psalms 119:141](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/141) — I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
- [Proverbs 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/2) — He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
- [Proverbs 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/20) — A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
- [Proverbs 19:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/16) — He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
- [Ecclesiastes 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/16) — Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
- [Isaiah 37:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/22) — This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn…
- [Isaiah 53:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/3) — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised,…
- [Jeremiah 22:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/28) — Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cas…
- [Jeremiah 49:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/15) — For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
- [Ezekiel 16:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/59) — For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
- [Ezekiel 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/16) — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant h…
- [Ezekiel 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/18) — Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
- [Ezekiel 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/19) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I r…
- [Ezekiel 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/8) — Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
- [Daniel 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/21) — And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and…
- [Obadiah 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/2) — Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
- [Malachi 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/6) — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear?…
- [Malachi 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/7) — Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
- [Malachi 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/12) — But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
- [Malachi 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/9) — Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in…