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Lexicon :: Strong's H3988 - mā'as

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מָאַס
Transliteration
mā'as
Pronunciation
maw-as'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1139,1140

Strong’s Definitions

מָאַס mâʼaç, maw-as'; a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear:—abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, × utterly, vile person.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 76x

The KJV translates Strong's H3988 in the following manner: despise (25x), refuse (9x), reject (19x), abhor (4x), become loathsome (1x), melt away (1x), miscellaneous (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 76x
The KJV translates Strong's H3988 in the following manner: despise (25x), refuse (9x), reject (19x), abhor (4x), become loathsome (1x), melt away (1x), miscellaneous (17x).

  1. to reject, despise, refuse

    1. (Qal)

      1. to reject, refuse

      2. to despise

    2. (Niphal) to be rejected

  2. (Niphal) to flow, run

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָאַס mâʼaç, maw-as'; a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear:—abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, × utterly, vile person.
STRONGS H3988: Abbreviations
† I. [מָאַס] verb reject (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מְאַס reject, despise; BaES 15 compare (dubious) Arabic bdb054904 lightly esteem (Kam.); Assyrian ma’âsu is perhaps destroy MeissnSuppl. 55); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מָאַס Isaiah 8:6 + 4 times; suffix מְאָסָם Psalm 53:6; 2nd person masculine singular מָאַסְתָּ Jeremiah 14:19 + 3 times; מָאַסְתָּה Judges 9:38; 1 Samuel 15:26 + 22 times Perfect; Imperfect יִמְאַס Job 8:20 + 3 times; יִמְאָ֑ס Psalm 36:5; Job 36:5; suffix וַיִּמְאָֽסְךָ 1 Samuel 15:23, 26; for וְאֶמְאָֽסְאךָ Hosea 4:6 (so Baer, compare DeComplut. Var. 18 f.; not וָא׳ van d. H.) read וְאֶמְֽֽֽאסְךָ; 3rd person masculine plural יִמְאֲסוּ Jeremiah 6:19 + 2 times; יִמְאָס֑וּן Isaiah 31:7; + 12 times Imperfect; Infinitive absolute מָאוֺס Isaiah 7:15, 16 מָאֹס Jeremiah 14:19; Lamentations 5:22; construct. מָֽאָסְכֶם Isaiah 30:12; מָאֳסָם Amos 2:4; Participle מוֺאֵס Proverbs 15:32; מֹאֵס Isaiah 33:15, feminine מֹאֶסֶת Ezekiel 21:15 (text dubious, Co מוֺאֲסֵי; Berthol וּמְאַסֵּף), Ezekiel 21:18 (also dubious, Co מִטֻּמְאָתָס; Berthol מְאַסֵּף); —
1. reject, refuse,
a. with accusative: God rejects men Hosea 4:6; Hosea 9:17; 1 Samuel 15:23, 26; 1 Samuel 16:1, 7; 2 Kings 23:27; Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 14:19 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 33:24, 26; Leviticus 26:44 (H), Psalm 53:6; Job 8:20; Job 10:3; Lamentations 5:22 (twice in verse); זָנַחְתָּ וַתִּמְאָס Psalm 89:39; men reject God Numbers 11:20 (J), 1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 10:19; men 1 Samuel 8:7; Job 30:1; idols Isaiah 31:7, evil Psalm 36:5, knowledge Hosea 4:6, divine תורה Amos 2:4; Isaiah 5:24; דבר 1 Samuel 15:23, 26, חקות Exodus 20:24, חקים 2 Kings 17:15; מוסר Job 5:17; Proverbs 3:11; variant reading things Isaiah 8:6; Ezekiel 21:15; Psalm 118:22; Job 31:13.
b. with בְ God rejects men 2 Kings 17:20; Jeremiah 6:30; Jeremiah 31:37; Psalm 78:59; Psalm 78:67, that in which man confides Jeremiah 2:37; men reject evil Isaiah 7:15, 16, divine תורה Jeremiah 6:19, דבר Isaiah 30:12; Jeremiah 8:9 חקות Leviticus 26:15 (H); משׁפטים Leviticus 26:43 (H), Ezekiel 5:6; Ezekiel 20:13, 16; variant reading things, Numbers 14:31 (J) Isaiah 33:15; Jeremiah 4:30; Psalm 106:24.
2. despise, with accusative, God subject שׂנאתי מאסתי חגיכם Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts; elsewhere men subject בי גם עוילים מ׳ Job 19:18 even young children despise me; חיי אמ׳ Job 9:21 I despise my life, compare מואס נפשׁוֺ Proverbs 15:32; בוֺ הלא זה העם אשׁר מ׳ Judges 9:38 is not this the people that thou despisedst? עָרִים מ׳ Isaiah 33:8; object omitted Job 7:16 (< join to preceding Me Siegf Du); Job 34:33; Job 36:5; Job 42:6 (Syriac Version Siegf אֶשְׁתֹּק; Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Symm Bö אֶמָּאֵס) Ezekiel 21:18 (but see above). —
Niph. be rejected: Imperfect תִּמָּאֵם Isaiah 54:6 (wife); Participle נִמְאָס Jeremiah 6:30 (silver), Psalm 15:4)= reprobate; opposed to יִרְאֵי י׳); + feminine נִמְאָסָה, נִמְאֶסֶת 1 Samuel 15:9 rejected, i.e. worthless (for HCT נָמֵם) according to We Klo Dr Kit Bu HPS (|| נמבזה, read נִבְזָה; compareמסס, בזה Niph.).

† II. [מָאַס] verb
Niph. flow, run (Aramaic id., but rare and dubious; — secondary form of מסס which see); — Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיִּמָּאֵס Job 7:5 my skin hath hardened and run (i. e. again, afresh; > GHoffm Du read וַיִּמַּס, Bu וַיִּמָּאס, √ מסס); 3rd person masculine plural כְּמוֺ מַיִם יִמָּֽאֲסוּ Psalm 58:8 (figurative of annihilation of wicked).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

20:24

Leviticus

26:15; 26:43; 26:44

Numbers

11:20; 14:31

Judges

9:38; 9:38

1 Samuel

8:7; 8:7; 10:19; 15:9; 15:23; 15:23; 15:23; 15:26; 15:26; 15:26; 15:26; 16:1; 16:7

2 Kings

17:15; 17:20; 23:27

Job

5:17; 7:5; 7:16; 8:20; 8:20; 9:21; 10:3; 19:18; 30:1; 31:13; 34:33; 36:5; 36:5; 42:6

Psalms

15:4; 36:5; 36:5; 53:6; 53:6; 58:8; 78:59; 78:67; 89:39; 106:24; 118:22

Proverbs

3:11; 15:32; 15:32

Isaiah

5:24; 7:15; 7:15; 7:16; 7:16; 8:6; 8:6; 30:12; 30:12; 31:7; 31:7; 33:8; 33:15; 33:15; 54:6

Jeremiah

2:37; 4:30; 6:19; 6:19; 6:30; 6:30; 7:29; 8:9; 14:19; 14:19; 14:19; 31:37; 33:24; 33:26

Lamentations

5:22; 5:22

Ezekiel

5:6; 20:13; 20:16; 21:15; 21:15; 21:18; 21:18

Hosea

4:6; 4:6; 4:6; 9:17

Amos

2:4; 2:4; 5:21

H3988

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Strong's Number H3988 matches the Hebrew מָאַס (mā'as),
which occurs 76 times in 69 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 26:15–Jer 4:30)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:20 - ‘but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - ‘But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then Zebul said to him, “Where indeed is your mouth now, with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out, if you will, and fight with them now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - “But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us!’ Now therefore, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
He also has rejected you from being king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees;[fn] for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:20 - And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - And the LORD said, “I will also remove Judah from 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.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:17 - “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects;
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 - My flesh is caked with worms and dust,
My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
Let me alone,
For my days are but a breath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - Behold, God will not cast away the blameless,
Nor will He uphold the evildoers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:21 - “I am blameless, yet I do not know myself;
I despise my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3 - Does it seem good to You that You should oppress,
That You should despise the work of Your hands,
And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:18 - Even young children despise me;
I arise, and they speak against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 - “But now they mock at me, men younger than I,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - “If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant
When they complained against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:33 - Should He repay it according to your terms,
Just because you disavow it?
You must choose, and not I;
Therefore speak what you know.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:5 - “Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one;
He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:6 - Therefore I abhor myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:4 - In whose eyes a vile person is despised,
But he honors those who fear the LORD;
He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He devises wickedness on his bed;
He sets himself in a way that is not good;
He does not abhor evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 53:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:5 - There they are in great fear
Where no fear was,
For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you;
You have put them to shame,
Because God has despised them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 - Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:59

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:59 - When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:67

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:67 - Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:38

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:38 - But You have cast off and abhorred,
You have been furious with Your anointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:24 - Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe His word,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:22 - The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:11 - My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor detest His correction;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:32 - He who disdains instruction despises his own soul,
But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble,
And the flame consumes the chaff,
So their root will be as rottenness,
And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:15 - “Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:6 - “Inasmuch as these people refused
The waters of Shiloah that flow softly,
And rejoice in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:12 - Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:

“Because you despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:7 - For in that day every man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
He has broken the covenant,
He has despised the cities,[fn]
He regards no man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 - He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And shuts his eyes from seeing evil:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:9 - You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 - For the LORD has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:37 - Indeed you will go forth from him
With your hands on your head;
For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies,
And you will not prosper by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - “And when you are plundered,
What will you do?
Though you clothe yourself with crimson,
Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
Though you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you will make yourself fair;
Your lovers will despise you;
They will seek your life.

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