Contempt
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Contempt

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Contempt (55 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame. 3. (n.) An act or expression
denoting contempt. ... Multi-Version Concordance Contempt (55 Occurrences). ...
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Contemptible (14 Occurrences)
... (See JPS YLT). Job 12:5 In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt
for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth. (See JPS). ...
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Hiss (13 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary To express contempt (Job 27:23). ... 3. (vt) To condemn or
express contempt for by hissing. 4. (vt) To utter with a hissing sound. ...
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Scorn (65 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs
from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. ...
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Sneer (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To show contempt by turning up the nose,
or by a particular facial expression. 2. (vi) To insinuate ...
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Raca (1 Occurrence)
... Vain, empty, worthless, only found in Matthew 5:22. The Jews used it as a word
of contempt. It is derived from a root meaning "to spit.". ...
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Despite (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. 3. (n.) An
act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt. ...
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Mock (43 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to
deride by mimicry. 2. (vt) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. ...
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Scoff (18 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive
or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. 2 ...
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Shame (412 Occurrences)
... modesty prompts us to conceal. 2. (n.) Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor;
ignominy; derision; contempt. 3. (n.) The cause or ...
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Gesture
... a sign of action (Psalm 74:11); clapping the hands, of rejoicing (2 Kings 11:12
Psalm 47:1; Psalm 98:8 Isaiah 55:12), also of ridicule, contempt and rejoicing ...
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Nehushtan (1 Occurrence)
... Of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the serpent Moses had made
in the wilderness (Numbers 21:8), and which Hezekiah destroyed because the ...
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Insult (25 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or
speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. ...
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Idol (56 Occurrences)
... etc.). (2.) `Elil, "a thing of naught" (Psalm 97:7; Isaiah 19:3); a word
of contempt, used of the gods of Noph (Ezek. 30:13). (3 ...
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Trample (34 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. 3. (vi) To tread with force and
rapidity; to stamp. 4. (vi) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon. ...
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Disdain (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the
regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. ...
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Despiteful (3 Occurrences)
... de-spit', de-spit'-fool: "Despite" is from Latin despectus, "a looking down upon."
As a noun (= "contempt") it is now generally used in its shortened form ...
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Multitude (352 Occurrences)
... (2) In Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 50:37, "mingled people" is a term of contempt
for the hybrid blood of certain of Israel's enemies. ...
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Mingled (62 Occurrences)
... (2) In Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 50:37, "mingled people" is a term of contempt
for the hybrid blood of certain of Israel's enemies. ...
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Mixed (96 Occurrences)
... (2) In Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 50:37, "mingled people" is a term of contempt
for the hybrid blood of certain of Israel's enemies. ...
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Pours (21 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Job 12:21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the
strong. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). Job 16:13 His archers surround me. ...
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Pouring (21 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Job 12:21 Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He
made feeble. (YLT). Job 37:6 For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! ...
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Profane (69 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. 3. (a.) Treating sacred things with contempt,
disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. ...
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People (13047 Occurrences)
... (2) In Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 50:37, "mingled people" is a term of contempt
for the hybrid blood of certain of Israel's enemies. ...
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Poureth (28 Occurrences)
... Jehovah, (YLT). Job 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth
the strength of the mighty. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). Job 16 ...
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Cub (4 Occurrences)
... the young of the bear. 2. (n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. ... 3. (vt
& i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons. ...
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Smile (4 Occurrences)
... the face; to laugh silently. 2. (vi) To express slight contempt by a look
implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. 3. (vi) To look gay ...
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Slight (13 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt,
as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity. 10. (adv.) Slightly. ...
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Sated (16 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). Psalms 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us;
For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. (See JPS). ...
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Snuff (6 Occurrences)
... 6. (vi) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence,
to take offense. 7. (n.) The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff. ...
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Nobles (71 Occurrences)
... This will cause much contempt and wrath. (See NIV). ... (See NIV). Job 12:21 He poureth
contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty; (DBY NAS NIV). ...
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Ease (46 Occurrences)
... My couch shall ease my complaint;' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). Job
12:5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. ...
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Reproach (124 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or
opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach ...
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Queen (59 Occurrences)
... (4) Metaphorically, to the city of Babylon (Rome) (Revelation 18:7): an expression
denoting sovereign contempt and imaginary dignity and power. William Baur. ...
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Deed (71 Occurrences)
... Esther 1:17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them
to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported,'King Ahasuerus ...
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Disgrace (73 Occurrences)
... people. (WEB NAS NIV). Proverbs 18:3 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes,
and with shame comes disgrace. (WEB RSV NIV). Proverbs ...
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Prince (160 Occurrences)
... prince. Job 12:21: "He poureth contempt upon princes" (compare Psalm
107:40); Job 21:28: "Where is the house of the prince? And ...
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Xerxes (24 Occurrences)
... Esther 1:17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them
to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported,'King Ahasuerus ...
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Queen's (3 Occurrences)
... deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and
wrath. (WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV). Esther 5:1 Now on the third ...
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Vashti (10 Occurrences)
... Esther 1:17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them
to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported,'King Ahasuerus ...
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Vacancy (3 Occurrences)
... no way! (YLT). Psalms 107:40 He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth
them to wander in vacancy -- no way. (YLT). Isaiah 34 ...
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Vermin (1 Occurrence)
... and lice. 2. (n. sing. & pl.) Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
Multi-Version Concordance Vermin (1 Occurrence). Jeremiah ...
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Nonimmersionist
... scholar doubts its existence. Schurer is full of contempt for those who
insist on the argument from silence. Its presence enables ...
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Non-immersionist
... scholar doubts its existence. Schurer is full of contempt for those who
insist on the argument from silence. Its presence enables ...
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Nazarene (19 Occurrences)
... (see NAZARETH.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Nazareth;
-- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians. ...
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Nobility (5 Occurrences)
... deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and
wrath. (See NIV). Ecclesiastes 10:17 Blessed art thou, O ...
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Names (133 Occurrences)
... Sometimes contempt for certain reprobate men would be most expressively indicated
by a change of name, eg the change of Esh-baal, "man of Baal," to Ish-bosheth ...
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Nazareth (29 Occurrences)
... Moreover, there does not seem to be any evidence that the inhabitants of Galilee
were in any respect inferior, or that a Galilean was held in contempt, in the ...
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Unbridled (4 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Exodus 32:25 And Moses seeth the people that it 'is' unbridled, for Aaron
hath made it unbridled for contempt among its withstanders, (YLT). ...
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Upbraid (2 Occurrences)
... before the thing imputed. 2. (vt) To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
3. (vt) To treat with contempt. 4. (vt) To object or ...
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Offscouring (2 Occurrences)
... and self-satisfied Corinthinns that they, the apostles, were "made as the filth
of the world, the offscouring of all things." In such contempt were they held ...
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Oppresses (6 Occurrences)
... (WEB NAS). Proverbs 14:31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker,
but he who is kind to the needy honors him. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Oppressors (31 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Psalms 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those
that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. (See JPS). ...
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Onesimus (2 Occurrences)
... slave, is thus commended to them, as no more a slave but a brother, no more dishonest
and faithless but trustworthy; no more an object of contempt but of love ...
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Loathing (6 Occurrences)
... Galatians 4:14 and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did
not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been ...
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Litter (1 Occurrence)
... 8. (vt) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more
than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt. ...
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Ladies (8 Occurrences)
... heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and
wrath. (KJV WBS NAS RSV). Esther 2:8 So it happened, when ...
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License (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The document granting such permission. 3. (n.) Excess of liberty; freedom
abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety. ...
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Looseth (5 Occurrences)
... a girdle. (KJV JPS ASV WBS). Job 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes,
And looseth the belt of the strong. (ASV JPS). Psalms 105 ...
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Leader (183 Occurrences)
... He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking
with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He ...
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Loathe (19 Occurrences)
... Galatians 4:14 and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did
not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been ...
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Looses (2 Occurrences)
... bindeth their loins with a girdle. (See RSV). Job 12:21 He poureth contempt
upon princes, and looseth the belt of the strong. (See RSV). ...
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Lording (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage. 3. (n.) A little lord; a lordling;
a lord, in contempt or ridicule. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Loosens (2 Occurrences)
... He binds their waist with a belt. (WEB NAS). Job 12:21 He pours contempt
on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. (WEB NAS). ...
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Levite (43 Occurrences)
... services, etc. 2. (n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.
Multi-Version Concordance Levite (43 Occurrences). Luke 10 ...
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Lord (59401 Occurrences)
... They name the brothers. Bengel suggests that there is a tone of contempt in the
omission of the names of the sisters, as though not worth mentioning. ...
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Golden (86 Occurrences)
... Jeroboam set up-especially as it is twice made feminine (Hosea 10:5; Hosea
13:2)-was intended to indicate their small size and thus to express contempt for ...
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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea ...
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Galilean (5 Occurrences)
... This word was used as a name of contempt as applied to our Lord's disciples (Luke
22:59; Acts 2:7). All the apostles, with the exception of Judas Iscariot ...
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Gideon (45 Occurrences)
... Gideon seems to have held this worship in contempt, and to have pondered deeply
the causes of Israel's reverses and the injuries wrought upon his own family by ...
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Gentiles (150 Occurrences)
... time, as the Jews began more and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges,
it acquired unpleasant associations, and was used as a term of contempt...
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Gaze (46 Occurrences)
... He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking
with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He ...
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Gnash (12 Occurrences)
... the Revised Version (British and American) "hath gnashed upon me"; Psalm 35:16;
Psalm 37:12; Psalm 112:10, grief; Lamentations 2:16, contempt or derision ...
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Gazingstock (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence;
an object of curiosity or contempt. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Wastes (33 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Psalms 107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them
to wander in the waste, where there is no way. (See RSV). ...
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Weakeneth (4 Occurrences)
... with a fetter; (DBY). Job 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth
the strength of the mighty. (KJV WBS). Jeremiah 38:4 ...
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Withstanders (15 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Exodus 32:25 And Moses seeth the people that it 'is' unbridled, for Aaron
hath made it unbridled for contempt among its withstanders, (YLT). ...
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Whelp (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's
whelps. 2. (n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt. ...
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Impudent (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward;
shameless; saucy. Multi-Version Concordance Impudent (5 Occurrences). ...
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Indignation (56 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The feeling excited by that which is unworthy,
base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. ...
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