H7034: קָלָה
qâlâh · pronounced kaw-law' · “to dishonor”
Definition
to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt)
KJV translates it as: base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Niphal) to be dishonoured, be despised, be lightly esteemed
1b) (Hiphil) to treat with contempt, dishonour, treat shamefully
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7034 is translated
- lightly esteemed ×2
- he will be dishonored ×1
- one who dishonors ×1
- a lightly esteemed person ×1
- it will be lightly esteemed ×1
Bible verses with H7034 (qâlâh)
Qâlâh appears in 6 verses.
- Deuteronomy 25:3
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- 1 Samuel 18:23
And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
- Proverbs 12:9
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
- Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
- Isaiah 16:14
But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.