בִּזָּיוֹן
bizzâyôwn · H963 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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contempt, scorn, disrespect
State in which someone considers someone or something else unworthy of attention or respect, and shows that by his/her actions
ExamplesEsther 1:18 “And this day the wives of the officials of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will talk about it to all the king’s officials, and there will be plenty of contempt and anger.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דַּיsufficiency 1
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
- קַלָּסָה qallâçâh · H7048 · object of scorn
- Both words denote attitudes or expressions of scorn and disdain, in the area of contemptuous behavior.
- לָצוֹן lâtsôwn · H3944 · taunting, scoffing
- Both words denote attitudes or states of disdain and scorn: scornful behavior on one side, contempt as a state or attitude on the other.
- קֶלֶס qeleç · H7047 · scorn
- Both words denote states or expressions of scorn and dishonor, in the area of contempt and mockery.
- בּוּז bûwz · H937 · contempt
- Both words are abstract nouns denoting contempt, with overlapping semantic content.
- שְׁנִינָה shᵉnîynâh · H8148 · taunt
- Both words denote expressions or states of scorn and disdain: שְׁנִינָה (shᵉnîynâh, H8148) "byword, taunt" is an active reproach or mocking term, while בִּזָּיוֹן (bizzâyôwn, H963) "contempt" is the attitude or state of scorn.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Despise002001002005
- The word denotes contempt itself, the disdain the queen's conduct is expected to provoke among the king's officials in Esther 1:18, fitting this domain of scorn.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H963. bizzayon בִּזָּיוֺן noun [masculine] contempt Est 1:18 (׳ב וָקָ֑צֶף). בִּזָּה see…
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
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