Definition

to scorn;

Etymology

a primitive root; in Ecclesiastes 12:5, by interchange for H5132 (נוּץ), to bloom

Where the KJV renders it

• abhor
• (give occasion to) blaspheme
• contemn
• despise
• flourish
• great
• provoke

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.

What the first audience heard

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