Strong’s H959 · Hebrew
בָּזָה
bâzâh
baw-zaw'
Definition
to disesteem
Etymology
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
- despise
- disdain
- contemn(-ptible)
- think to scorn
- vile person
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.