Lexicon :: Strong's H959 - bāzâ

Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

“He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the LORD’s word and broken his command; his guilt remains on him.”

“Therefore, this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘I did say that your family and your forefather’s family would walk before me forever. But now,’ this is the LORD’s declaration, ‘no longer! For those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disgraced.

But some wicked men said, “How can this guy save us? ” They despised him and did not bring him a gift, but Saul said nothing.[fn][fn]

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a youth, healthy[fn] and handsome.

As the ark of the LORD was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

“Why then have you despised the LORD’s command by doing what I consider[fn] evil? You struck down Uriah the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife ​— ​you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.

“This is the word the LORD has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion

despises you and scorns you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head behind your back.

As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping[fn] and dancing, and she despised him in her heart.

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.

When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, “What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king? ”

“For the queen’s action will become public knowledge to all the women and cause them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Ahasuerus ordered Queen Vashti brought before him, but she did not come.’

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, it seemed repugnant to Haman to do away with[fn] Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

who despises the one rejected by the LORD[fn]

but honors those who fear the LORD,

who keeps his word whatever the cost,

But I am a worm and not a man,

scorned by mankind and despised by people.

For he has not despised or abhorred

the torment of the oppressed.

He did not hide his face from him

but listened when he cried to him for help.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is[fn] a broken spirit.

You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God.

For the LORD listens to the needy

and does not despise

his own who are prisoners.

Like one waking from a dream,

Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute

and will not despise their prayer.

I am insignificant and despised,

but I do not forget your precepts.

Whoever lives with integrity fears the LORD,

but the one who is devious in his ways despises him.

A wise son brings joy to his father,

but a foolish man despises his mother.

The one who keeps commands preserves himself;

one who disregards[fn] his ways will die.

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

“this is the word the LORD has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion

despises you and scorns you;

Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head

behind your back.

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.

He was like someone people turned away from;[fn]

he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot,

a jar no one wants?

Why are he and his descendants hurled out

and cast into a land they have not known?

I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,

despised among humanity.

“ ‘For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

“ ‘As I live ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

“He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. He did all these things even though he gave his hand in pledge. He will not escape!

“You despise my holy things and profane my Sabbaths.

“In his place a despised person will arise; royal honors will not be given to him, but he will come during a time of peace[fn] and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

Look, I will make you insignificant

among the nations;

you will be deeply despised.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the LORD of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.”

Yet you ask, “How have we despised your name? ”

“But you are profaning it when you say, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.’

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.”