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Strong H39882 sensesמָאַס

to reject · to flow

Transliteration
mâ'as
Pronunciation
maw-as'

The 2 senses of Strong H3988

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H3988 appears in 69 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to rejectH3988Ato reject, despise, refuse67 verses · 14 books
  2. to flowH3988B(Niphal) to flow, run2 verses · Job, Psalms

General definition

A primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear: - {abhor} cast away ({off}) {contemn} {despise} {disdain} (become) loathe ({-some}) melt {away} {refuse} {reject} {reprobate} X {utterly} vile person.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • despise19
  • reject15
  • cast10
  • refuse8
  • abhor3
  • despiseth3
  • despised2
  • thou2
  • abhorreth1
  • become1
  • contemn1
  • contemneth1

First verses

  1. Leviticus 26:15
    And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
  2. 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 my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
  3. Leviticus 26:44
    And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
  4. 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 the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
  5. 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.
  6. 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? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
  7. 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 me, that I should not reign over them.
  8. 1 Samuel 10:19
    And ye have this day rejected 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.
  9. 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 thee from being king.
  10. 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 thee from being king over Israel.
  11. 1 Samuel 16:1
    And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected 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.
  12. 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 him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
  13. 2 Kings 17:15
    And they rejected 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.
  14. 2 Kings 17:20
    And the Lord rejected 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.
  15. 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 this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
  16. Job 5:17
    Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
  17. Job 7:5
    My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
  18. Job 7:16
    I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
  19. Job 8:20
    Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
  20. Job 9:21
    Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.