Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3988: מָאַס (mâʼaç) Definition

Strong's number
H3988
Lemma
מָאַס
Transliteration
mâʼaç
Pronunciation
maw-as'
Strong's definition
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, vile person. a primitive root;

70 instances of the word מָאַס mâʼaç (H3988)


  • Isaiah 7:15 - Butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good

  • Isaiah 7:16 - shall know For before the child to refuse the evil and choose the good forsaken the land that thou abhorrest shall be of both her kings

  • Isaiah 8:6 - Forasmuch refuseth as this people the waters of Shiloah that go softly and rejoice in Rezin son and Remaliah's

  • Isaiah 30:12 - Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel Because ye despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and stay

  • Isaiah 31:7 - For in that day shall cast away every man and his idols of silver and his idols of gold have made which your own hands unto you for a sin

  • Isaiah 33:8 - lie waste The highways ceaseth the wayfaring man he hath broken the covenant he hath despised the cities he regardeth

  • Isaiah 33:15 - He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil

  • Isaiah 41:9 - Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth thee from the chief men and called thereof and said unto thee Thou art my servant I have chosen thee and not cast thee away

  • Isaiah 54:6 - and a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit hath called For the LORD and a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God

  • Jeremiah 2:37 - Yea thou shalt go forth from him and thine hands upon thine head hath rejected for the LORD thy confidences and thou shalt not prosper

  • 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 though thou rentest with painting thy face in vain shalt thou make thyself fair will despise thy lovers thy life thee they will seek

  • Jeremiah 6:19 - Hear O earth behold I will bring evil upon this people even the fruit of their thoughts unto my words because they have not hearkened nor to my law but rejected

  • Jeremiah 6:30 - silver Reprobate shall men call Reprobate them because the LORD

  • Jeremiah 7:29 - Cut off thine hair O Jerusalem and cast it away and take up on high places a lamentation hath rejected for the LORD and forsaken the generation of his wrath

  • Jeremiah 8:9 - The wise they are dismayed and taken the word of the LORD lo they have rejected and what wisdom

  • Jeremiah 14:19 - Hast thou utterly Hast thou utterly Judah Zion lothed hath thy soul why hast thou smitten of healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for the time of healing and behold trouble

  • Jeremiah 31:37 - Thus saith the LORD can be measured If heaven above searched out and the foundations of the earth beneath I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 33:24 - Considerest my people have spoken saying The two families hath chosen which the LORD he hath even cast them off my people thus they have despised that they should be no more a nation before

  • Jeremiah 33:26 - Then any of his seed and Jacob and David my servant will I cast away so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers any of his seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to return for I will cause their captivity and have mercy

  • Job 5:17 - Behold happy is the man correcteth whom God not thou the chastening of the Almighty therefore despise