- Original: בּזה - Transliteration: Bazah - Phonetic: baw-zaw' - Definition: 1. to despise, hold in contempt, disdain a. (Qal) to despise, regard with contempt b. (Niphal) 1. to be despised 2. to be despicable 3. to be vile, worthless c. (Hiphil) to cause to despise - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 224 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to disesteem: - despise disdain contemn (-ptible) + think to scorn vile person. Total KJV Occurrences: 42 • contemned, 1 Psalm 15:4 • contemptible, 3 Malachi 1:7; Malachi 1:12; Malachi 2:9 • despise, 6 1 Samuel 2:30; Esther 1:17; Psalm 51:17; Psalm 73:20; Psalm 102:17; Malachi 1:6 • despised, 25 Genesis 25:34; Numbers 15:31; 1 Samuel 10:27; 2 Samuel 6:16; 2 Samuel 12:9; 2 Samuel 12:10; 2 Kings 19:21; 1 Chronicles 15:29; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 2:19; Psalm 22:6; Psalm 22:24; Psalm 119:141; Ecclesiastes 9:16; Isaiah 53:3(2); Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 49:15; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 17:16; Ezekiel 17:18; Ezekiel 17:19; Ezekiel 22:8; Obadiah 1:2; Malachi 1:6 • despiseth, 4 Psalm 69:33; Proverbs 14:2; Proverbs 15:20; Proverbs 19:16 • disdained, 1 1 Samuel 17:42 • person, 1 Daniel 11:21 • scorn, 1 Esther 3:6