Strong’s H936 · Hebrew
בּוּז
bûwz · booz
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to disrespect
In the King James Version contemn, despise, [idiom] utterly.
In 11 verses of the King James Version
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 6:30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- Proverbs 11:12He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
- Proverbs 13:13Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
- Proverbs 14:21He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
- Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
- Proverbs 23:22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
- Song of Songs 8:1O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
- Song of Songs 8:7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
- Zechariah 4:10For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.