H3988: מָאַס
mâʼaç · pronounced maw-as' · “to reject”
Definition
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
KJV translates it as: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, vile person.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to reject, refuse
1a2) to despise
1b) (Niphal) to be rejected
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3988 is translated
- you have rejected ×8
- they have rejected ×7
- you ×5
- they rejected ×4
- them ×4
- i reject ×4
- he rejected ×3
- i will reject ×3
- he rejects ×3
- he has rejected ×3
- you will reject ×2
- him ×2
Bible verses with H3988 (mâʼaç)
Mâʼaç appears in 69 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- 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 covenant:
- 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 punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
- 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 utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
- 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 among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
- 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
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 that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
- 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 they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
- 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, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- 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, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
- 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 being king over Israel.
- 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 with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
- 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 not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
- 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 they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
- 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 of his sight.
- 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 chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
- Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- Job 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
- Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- 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 wicked?
- Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
- 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
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
- 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 thou knowest.
All 69 references
- Job 36:5
- Job 42:6
- Psalms 15:4
- Psalms 36:4
- Psalms 53:5
- Psalms 58:7
- Psalms 78:59
- Psalms 78:67
- Psalms 89:38
- Psalms 106:24
- Psalms 118:22
- Proverbs 3:11
- Proverbs 15:32
- Isaiah 5:24
- Isaiah 7:15
- Isaiah 7:16
- Isaiah 8:6
- Isaiah 30:12
- Isaiah 31:7
- Isaiah 33:8
- Isaiah 33:15
- Isaiah 41:9
- Isaiah 54:6
- Jeremiah 2:37
- Jeremiah 4:30
- Jeremiah 6:19
- Jeremiah 6:30
- Jeremiah 7:29
- Jeremiah 8:9
- Jeremiah 14:19
- Jeremiah 31:37
- Jeremiah 33:24
- Jeremiah 33:26
- Lamentations 5:22
- Ezekiel 5:6
- Ezekiel 20:13
- Ezekiel 20:16
- Ezekiel 20:24
- Ezekiel 21:10
- Ezekiel 21:13
- Hosea 4:6
- Hosea 9:17
- Amos 2:4
- Amos 5:21