קַלָּסָה
qallâçâh · H7048 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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object of scorn
Action by which someone speaks insulting words to someone else, out of a sense of superiority, intending to bring public shame upon that person
ExamplesEzekiel 22:4 “You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you have become defiled by your idols which you have made. So you have brought your days closer and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a disgrace to the nations, and an object of mocking to all the lands.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 5 words
- בִּזָּיוֹן bizzâyôwn · H963 · contempt, scorn, disrespect
- Both words denote attitudes or expressions of scorn and disdain, in the field of contemptuous behavior.
- נְאָצָה nᵉʼâtsâh · H5007 · contempt, disgrace
- Both words denote contemptuous speech directed at a target, in the range of blasphemy and mocking.
- בּוּז bûwz · H937 · contempt
- The target lexeme (mocking) and בּוּז (contempt, despising) both denote attitudes or acts of disrespect and scorn, functioning as near-synonyms in the semantic field of expressing disdain.
- שְׁנִינָה shᵉnîynâh · H8148 · taunt
- Both lexemes denote forms of contemptuous speech directed at someone (mocking, taunt, byword)—genuine same-language near-synonyms that could substitute in overlapping contexts of scorn or derision.
- לָצוֹן lâtsôwn · H3944 · taunting, scoffing
- Both words denote scornful or mocking attitudes or actions, overlapping in the field of contempt and mockery.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Despise002001002005
- The word means mocking, illustrated by Jerusalem made "an object of mocking to all the lands" as a consequence of her guilt (Ezekiel 22:4).
- Shame002001002025
- The same judgment describes Jerusalem made "a disgrace to the nations" alongside the mocking (Ezekiel 22:4).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7048. qallasah קַלָּסָה noun feminine id., || id.; — Eze 22:4.
קַלָּסָה noun feminine id., || id.; — Eze 22:4.
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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