Strong's Concordance H3988

Original Word: מָאַס
Transliteration: mâʼaç
Phonetic Spelling: maw-as'
a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear; abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, × utterly, vile person.

Usages throughout the bible

Leviticus 26:15 - And if ye shall despise H3988 my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

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 H3988 my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

Leviticus 26:44 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, H3988 neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

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 H3988 the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

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. H3988

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? H3988 go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

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 H3988 thee, but they have rejected H3988 me, that I should not reign over them.

1 Samuel 10:19 - And ye have this day rejected H3988 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.

1 Samuel 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected H3988 the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected H3988 thee from being king.

1 Samuel 15:26 - And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected H3988 the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected H3988 thee from being king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:1 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected H3988 him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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 H3988 him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

2 Kings 17:15 - And they rejected H3988 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.

2 Kings 17:20 - And the LORD rejected H3988 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.

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 H3988 this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

Job 5:17 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise H3988 not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Job 7:5 - My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. H3988

Job 7:16 - I loathe H3988 it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Job 8:20 - Behold, God will not cast away H3988 a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

Job 9:21 - Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise H3988 my life.

Job 10:3 - Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise H3988 the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Job 19:18 - Yea, young children despised H3988 me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Job 30:1 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained H3988 to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 31:13 - If I did despise H3988 the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Job 36:5 - Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth H3988 not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Job 42:6 - Wherefore I abhor H3988 myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Psalms 15:4 - In whose eyes a vile person H3988 is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Psalms 36:4 - He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth H3988 not evil.

Psalms 53:5 - There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised H3988 them.

Psalms 58:7 - Let them melt away H3988 as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

Psalms 78:59 - When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred H3988 Israel:

Psalms 78:67 - Moreover he refused H3988 the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Psalms 89:38 - But thou hast cast off and abhorred, H3988 thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

Psalms 106:24 - Yea, they despised H3988 the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Psalms 118:22 - The stone which the builders refused H3988 is become the head stone of the corner.

Proverbs 3:11 - My son, despise H3988 not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

Proverbs 15:32 - He that refuseth instruction despiseth H3988 his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Isaiah 5:24 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away H3988 the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 7:15 - Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse H3988 the evil, and choose the good.

Isaiah 7:16 - For before the child shall know to refuse H3988 the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Isaiah 8:6 - Forasmuch as this people refuseth H3988 the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

Isaiah 30:12 - Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise H3988 this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Isaiah 31:7 - For in that day every man shall cast away H3988 his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Isaiah 33:8 - The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised H3988 the cities, he regardeth no man.

Isaiah 33:15 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth H3988 the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 41:9 - Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. H3988

Isaiah 54:6 - For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, H3988 saith thy God.

Jeremiah 2:37 - Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected H3988 thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Jeremiah 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise H3988 thee, they will seek thy life.

Jeremiah 6:19 - Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected H3988 it.