# מָאַס (maas)

Israeli respelling: ma-as. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3988. 69 Old Testament occurrences.

to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear

King James renderings: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, 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/maas-h3988

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/15) — And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my c…
- [Leviticus 26:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/43) — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the puni…
- [Leviticus 26:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/44) — And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utte…
- [Numbers 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/20) — But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is a…
- [Numbers 14:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/31) — But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
- [Judges 9:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/38) — Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people…
- [1 Samuel 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/7) — And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but th…
- [1 Samuel 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/19) — And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him,…
- [1 Samuel 15:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/23) — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, h…
- [1 Samuel 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/26) — And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from b…
- [1 Samuel 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/1) — And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn wit…
- [1 Samuel 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/7) — But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth…
- [2 Kings 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/15) — And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and…
- [2 Kings 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/20) — And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out…
- [2 Kings 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/27) — And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have c…
- [Job 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/17) — Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- [Job 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/5) — My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- [Job 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/16) — I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- [Job 8:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/20) — Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
- [Job 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/21) — Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- [Job 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/3) — Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wi…
- [Job 19:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/18) — Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
- [Job 30:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/1) — But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- [Job 31:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/13) — If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
- [Job 34:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/33) — Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what tho…
- [Job 36:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/5) — Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
- [Job 42:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/6) — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- [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 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/4) — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
- [Psalms 53:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/53/5) — There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them t…
- [Psalms 58:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/7) — Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
- [Psalms 78:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/59) — When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
- [Psalms 78:67](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/67) — Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
- [Psalms 89:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/38) — But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
- [Psalms 106:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/24) — Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
- [Psalms 118:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/118/22) — The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
- [Proverbs 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/11) — My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
- [Proverbs 15:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/32) — He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
- [Isaiah 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/24) — Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom sha…
- [Isaiah 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/15) — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- [Isaiah 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/16) — For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
- [Isaiah 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/6) — Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
- [Isaiah 30:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/12) — Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
- [Isaiah 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/7) — For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
- [Isaiah 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/8) — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- [Isaiah 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/15) — He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of brib…
- [Isaiah 41:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/9) — Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I h…
- [Isaiah 54:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/6) — For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
- [Jeremiah 2:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/37) — Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper…
- [Jeremiah 4:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/30) — And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, t…
- [Jeremiah 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/19) — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words,…
- [Jeremiah 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/30) — Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
- [Jeremiah 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/29) — Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the ge…
- [Jeremiah 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/9) — The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
- [Jeremiah 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/19) — Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace,…
- [Jeremiah 31:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/37) — Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the s…
- [Jeremiah 33:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/24) — Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus th…
- [Jeremiah 33:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/26) — Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraha…
- [Lamentations 5:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/22) — But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
- [Ezekiel 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/6) — And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her:…
- [Ezekiel 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/13) — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a m…
- [Ezekiel 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/16) — Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- [Ezekiel 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/24) — Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fat…
- [Ezekiel 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/10) — It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son,…
- [Ezekiel 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/13) — Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Hosea 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/6) — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest…
- [Hosea 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/17) — My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- [Amos 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/4) — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despis…
- [Amos 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/21) — I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.