1) to reject, despise, refuse 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to reject, refuse 1a2) to despise 1b) (Niphal) to be rejected
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H3988 — מָאַס
ma.as · to reject · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Leviticus 26:15 · תִּמְאָ֔סוּand if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,Leviticus 26:43 · מָאָ֔סוּFor the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.Leviticus 26:44 · מְאַסְתִּ֤יםYet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.Numbers 11:20 · מְאַסְתֶּ֤םbut for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”Numbers 14:31 · מְאַסְתֶּ֖םBut I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.Judges 9:38 · מָאַ֣סְתָּה“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”1 Samuel 8:7 · מָאָ֔סוּ · מָאֲס֖וּAnd the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.1 Samuel 10:19 · מְאַסְתֶּ֣םBut today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”1 Samuel 15:23 · מָאַ֙סְתָּ֙ · וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֖For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”1 Samuel 15:26 · מָאַ֙סְתָּה֙ · וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֣“I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”1 Samuel 16:1 · מְאַסְתִּ֔יוNow the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”1 Samuel 16:7 · מְאַסְתִּ֑יהוּBut the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”2 Kings 17:15 · וַיִּמְאֲס֣וּThey rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.2 Kings 17:20 · וַיִּמְאַ֨סSo the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.2 Kings 23:27 · וּ֠מָאַסְתִּיFor the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”Job 5:17 · תִּמְאָֽס׃Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.Job 7:5 · וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.Job 7:16 · מָ֭אַסְתִּיI loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.Job 8:20 · יִמְאַס־Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.Job 9:21 · אֶמְאַ֥סThough I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.Job 10:3 · תִ֭מְאַסDoes it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?Job 19:18 · מָ֣אֲסוּEven little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.Job 30:1 · מָאַ֥סְתִּי“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.Job 31:13 · אֶמְאַ֗סIf I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,Job 34:33 · מָאַ֗סְתָּShould God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.Job 36:5 · יִמְאָ֑סIndeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.Job 42:6 · אֶמְאַ֣סTherefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”Psalm 15:4 · נִמְאָ֗סwho despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,Psalm 36:4 · יִמְאָֽס׃Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.Psalm 53:5 · מְאָסָֽם׃There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.Psalm 58:7 · יִמָּאֲס֣וּMay they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.Psalm 78:59 · וַיִּמְאַ֥סOn hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.Psalm 78:67 · וַ֭יִּמְאַסHe rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.Psalm 89:38 · וַתִּמְאָ֑סNow, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.Psalm 106:24 · וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּThey despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.Psalm 118:22 · מָאֲס֣וּThe stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.Proverbs 3:11 · תִּמְאָ֑סMy son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;Proverbs 15:32 · מוֹאֵ֣סHe who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.Isaiah 5:24 · מָאֲס֗וּTherefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 7:15 · מָא֥וֹסBy the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.Isaiah 7:16 · מָאֹ֥סFor before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.Isaiah 8:6 · מָאַס֙“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,Isaiah 30:12 · מָֽאָסְכֶ֖םTherefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,Isaiah 31:7 · יִמְאָס֗וּןFor on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.Isaiah 33:8 · מָאַ֣סThe highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.Isaiah 33:15 · מֹאֵ֞סHe who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—Isaiah 41:9 · מְאַסְתִּֽיךָ׃I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.Isaiah 54:6 · תִמָּאֵ֖סFor the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.Jeremiah 2:37 · מָאַ֤סMoreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”Jeremiah 4:30 · מָאֲסוּ־And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.Jeremiah 6:19 · וַיִּמְאֲסוּ־Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.Jeremiah 6:30 · נִמְאָ֔ס · מָאַ֥סThey are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”Jeremiah 7:29 · מָאַ֣סCut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’Jeremiah 8:9 · מָאָ֔סוּThe wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?Jeremiah 14:19 · הֲמָאֹ֨ס · מָאַ֜סְתָּHave You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.Jeremiah 31:37 · אֶמְאַ֨סThis is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 33:24 · וַיִּמְאָסֵ֑ם“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.Jeremiah 33:26 · אֶמְאַ֗סthen I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”Lamentations 5:22 · מָאֹ֣ס · מְאַסְתָּ֔נוּunless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.Hosea 4:6 · מָאַ֗סְתָּ · וְאֶמְאָֽסְאךָ֙My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Hosea 9:17 · יִמְאָסֵ֣םMy God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.Amos 2:4 · מָאֳסָ֞םThis is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.Amos 5:21 · מָאַ֖סְתִּי“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.