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)


  • Job 7:5 - is clothed My flesh with worms and clods of dust my skin is broken and become loathsome

  • Job 7:16 - I loathe alway it I would not live let me alone are vanity for my days

  • 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 - unto thee that thou shouldest oppress that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands upon the counsel of the wicked and shine

  • Job 19:18 - Yea young children despised me I arose and they spake

  • Job 30:1 - than I have me in derision But now they that are younger I would have disdained whose fathers 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

  • Job 34:33 - Should it be according to thy mind he will recompense it whether thou refuse it whether thou refuse or whether thou choose what thou knowest and not I therefore speak

  • Job 36:5 - Behold God is mighty and despiseth is mighty in strength and wisdom

  • Job 42:6 - Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes

  • Judges 9:38 - Then said Zebul unto him Where is now thy mouth Then said Who is Abimelech that we should serve him is not this the people that thou hast despised go out I pray now and fight

  • Lamentations 5:22 - But thou hast utterly wroth us thou art very

  • Lamentations 5:22 - But thou hast utterly wroth us thou art very

  • Leviticus 26:15 - my statutes And if ye shall despise my judgments abhor or if your soul 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 of them and shall enjoy of the punishment of their iniquity because because my judgments they despised my statutes abhorred and because their soul

  • Leviticus 26:44 - And yet when they be for all that 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 Why came we forth 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

  • Proverbs 3:11 - not the chastening of the LORD My son despise neither be weary of his correction