נְאָצָה
nᵉʼâtsâh · H5007 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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disgrace, contempt
State in which humans or deities are unwilling to engage in any way with (other) humans or deities, or with other objects and events, often caused by pride and contempt
Examples2 Kings 19:3 And they said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and humiliation; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
Isaiah 37:3 And they said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and humiliation; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 2
- אָמַרto say 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- בּוּז bûwz · H937 · contempt
- Both terms denote scorn or contempt. Blasphemy involves contemptuous speech directed toward the divine, while the other term covers contempt or despising more broadly, and the two are plausibly interchangeable as expressions of scorn.
- קְלָלָה qᵉlâlâh · H7045 · curse, object of cursing
- Blasphemy — reviling speech against God — and a curse — pronouncing evil or harm — overlap as both involve negative, hostile speech acts.
- קַלָּסָה qallâçâh · H7048 · object of scorn
- Both words denote contemptuous speech directed at a target (blasphemy and mocking), within the range of disrespectful or scornful utterance.
- קֶלֶס qeleç · H7047 · scorn
- Both terms denote contemptuous speech acts — blasphemy versus derision — overlapping in the semantic field of scornful or contemptuous expression.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unwilling002001002031
- נְאָצָה denotes blasphemy or contemptuous provocation, sharing the same root sense of stubborn defiance as the related verb נָאַץ (nâʼats, H5006), used of words or acts that reject the LORD's authority.
- Despise002001002005
- The word names an act of scornful contempt directed at God, as in Nehemiah 9:18 and 9:26's description of Israel's great blasphemies against the LORD, tying the term to open, contemptuous rejection.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5007. n 'atsah נְאָצָה noun feminine contempt, contumely; — וּנ וְתוֺכֵחָה ׳צָרָה יוֺם…
'atsah נְאָצָה noun feminine contempt, contumely; — וּנ וְתוֺכֵחָה ׳צָרָה יוֺם 2Ki 19:3 = Isa 37:3.
[נֶאָצָה noun feminine contempt (toward ׳י), blasphemy; — plural נֶאָצוֺת Neh 9:18, Neh 9:26 with עָשָׂה of Israel; נָאָצוֺתֶיךָ Eze 35:12 of Mt. Seir, spoken against ישׂראל הרי.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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