Usually translated as
despise, refuse, abhor, contemn, loathe, reject, reprobate, vile person, cast away, disdain, melt away, utterly
Occurrences
Mâʼaç occurs 76 times in 69 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (3), Numbers (2), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (6), 2 Kings (3), Job (12), Psalms (9), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (10), Jeremiah (10), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (6), Hosea (2), Amos (2)
- Leviticus 26:15 — And if ye shall despise (תִּמְאָ֔סוּ) my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, 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 without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised (מָאָ֔סוּ) my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Leviticus 26:44 — And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away (מְאַסְתִּ֤ים), 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, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised (מְאַסְתֶּ֤ם) 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 (מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם).
- Judges 9:38 — Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised (מָאַ֣סְתָּה)? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
- 1 Samuel 8:7 — And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected (מָאָ֔סוּ) thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
- 1 Samuel 8:7 — And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected (מָאֲס֖וּ) me, that I should not reign over them.
- 1 Samuel 10:19 — And ye have this day rejected (מְאַסְתֶּ֣ם) your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- 1 Samuel 15:23 — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected (מָאַ֙סְתָּ֙) the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
- 1 Samuel 15:23 — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected (וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֖) thee from being king.
- 1 Samuel 15:26 — And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected (מָאַ֙סְתָּה֙) the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
- 1 Samuel 15:26 — And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected (וַיִּמְאָסְךָ֣) thee from being king over Israel.
- 1 Samuel 16:1 — And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected (מְאַסְתִּ֔יו) him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
- 1 Samuel 16:7 — But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused (מְאַסְתִּ֑יהוּ) him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
- 2 Kings 17:15 — And they rejected (וַיִּמְאֲס֣וּ) his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
- 2 Kings 17:20 — And the LORD rejected (וַיִּמְאַ֨ס) all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
- 2 Kings 23:27 — And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off (וּ֠מָאַסְתִּי) this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
- Job 5:17 — Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise (תִּמְאָֽס) not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- Job 7:5 — My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome (וַיִּמָּאֵֽס).
- Job 7:16 — I loathe (מָ֭אַסְתִּי) it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- Job 8:20 — Behold, God will not cast away (יִמְאַס) 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 (אֶמְאַ֥ס) my life.
- Job 10:3 — Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise (תִ֭מְאַס) the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- Job 19:18 — Yea, young children despised (מָ֣אֲסוּ) me; I arose, and they spake against me.
- Job 30:1 — But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained (מָאַ֥סְתִּי) to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- Job 31:13 — If I did despise (אֶמְאַ֗ס) the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
- Job 34:33 — Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse (מָאַ֗סְתָּ), or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
- Job 36:5 — Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth (יִמְאָ֑ס) not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
- Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor (אֶמְאַ֣ס) myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- Psalms 15:4 — In whose eyes a vile person (נִמְאָ֗ס) is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
- Psalms 36:4 — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth (יִמְאָֽס) not evil.
- Psalms 53:5 — There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised (מְאָסָֽם) them.
- Psalms 58:7 — Let them melt away (יִמָּאֲס֣וּ) as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
- Psalms 78:59 — When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred (וַיִּמְאַ֥ס) Israel:
- Psalms 78:67 — Moreover he refused (וַ֭יִּמְאַס) the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
- Psalms 89:38 — But thou hast cast off and abhorred (וַתִּמְאָ֑ס), thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
- Psalms 106:24 — Yea, they despised (וַֽ֭יִּמְאֲסוּ) the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
- Psalms 118:22 — The stone which the builders refused (מָאֲס֣וּ) is become the head stone of the corner.
- Proverbs 3:11 — My son, despise (תִּמְאָ֑ס) not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
- Proverbs 15:32 — He that refuseth instruction despiseth (מוֹאֵ֣ס) his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
- Isaiah 5:24 — Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away (מָאֲס֗וּ) the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 7:15 — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse (מָא֥וֹס) the evil, and choose the good.
- Isaiah 7:16 — For before the child shall know to refuse (מָאֹ֥ס) the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
- Isaiah 8:6 — Forasmuch as this people refuseth (מָאַס֙) the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
- Isaiah 30:12 — Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise (מָֽאָסְכֶ֖ם) this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
- Isaiah 31:7 — For in that day every man shall cast away (יִמְאָס֗וּן) his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
- Isaiah 33:8 — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised (מָאַ֣ס) the cities, he regardeth no man.
- Isaiah 33:15 — He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth (מֹאֵ֞ס) 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, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away (מְאַסְתִּֽיךָ).