- Original: נאץ - Transliteration: Na'ats - Phonetic: naw-ats' - Definition: 1. to spurn, contemn, despise, abhor a. (Qal) to spurn, contemn b. (Piel) 1. to spurn 2. to cause to contemn c. (Hiphil) to spurn d. (Hithpolel) to be contemned - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1274 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to scorn; or (Ecclesiastes 12:5) by interchange for H5132 to bloom: - abhor (give occasion to) blaspheme contemn despise flourish X great provoke. Total KJV Occurrences: 25 • abhor, 1 Jeremiah 14:21 • abhorred, 2 Deuteronomy 32:19; 1 Samuel 2:17 • abhorreth, 1 Psalm 10:3 • blaspheme, 2 2 Samuel 12:14; Psalm 74:10 • blasphemed, 2 Psalm 74:18; Isaiah 52:5 • contemn, 1 Psalm 10:13 • contemned, 1 Psalm 107:11 • despise, 1 Jeremiah 23:17 • despised, 6 Proverbs 1:30; Proverbs 5:12; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 60:14; Jeremiah 33:24; Lamentations 2:6 • despiseth, 1 Proverbs 15:5 • flourish, 1 Ecclesiastes 12:5 • occasion, 1 2 Samuel 12:14 • provoke, 2 Numbers 14:11; Deuteronomy 31:20 • provoked, 3 Numbers 14:23; Numbers 16:30; Isaiah 1:4