- Original: מאס
- Transliteration: Ma'ac
- Phonetic: maw-as'
- Definition: 
1. to reject, despise, refuse 
a. (Qal) 
1. to reject, refuse 
2. to despise 
b. (Niphal) to be rejected 
2. (Niphal) to flow, run 
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1139,1140
- Part(s) of speech: 
- Strong's: A primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear: - abhor cast away (off) contemn despise disdain (become) loathe (-some) melt away refuse reject reprobate X utterly vile person. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 76 
 • abhor, 1
 
Job 42:6 
 
 • abhorred, 2
 
Psalm 78:59; 
Psalm 89:38 
 
 • abhorreth, 1
 
Psalm 36:4 
 
 • away, 8
 
Leviticus 26:44; 
Job 8:20; 
Psalm 58:7; 
Isaiah 5:24; 
Isaiah 31:7; 
Isaiah 41:9; 
Jeremiah 33:26; 
Hosea 9:17 
 
 • contemn, 1
 
Ezekiel 21:13 
 
 • contemneth, 1
 
Ezekiel 21:10 
 
 • despise, 9
 
Leviticus 26:15; 
Job 5:17; 
Job 9:21; 
Job 10:3; 
Job 31:13; 
Proverbs 3:11; 
Isaiah 30:12; 
Jeremiah 4:30; 
Amos 5:21 
 
 • despised, 12
 
Leviticus 26:43; 
Numbers 11:20; 
Numbers 14:31; 
Judges 9:38; 
Job 19:18; 
Psalm 53:5; 
Psalm 106:24; 
Isaiah 33:8; 
Ezekiel 20:13; 
Ezekiel 20:16; 
Ezekiel 20:24; 
Amos 2:4 
 
 • despiseth, 3
 
Job 36:5; 
Proverbs 15:32; 
Isaiah 33:15 
 
 • disdained, 1
 
Job 30:1 
 
 • loathe, 1
 
Job 7:16 
 
 • loathsome, 1
 
Job 7:5 
 
 • off, 3
 
2 Kings 23:27; 
Jeremiah 31:37; 
Jeremiah 33:24 
 
 • person, 1
 
Psalm 15:4 
 
 • refuse, 3
 
Job 34:33; 
Isaiah 7:15; 
Isaiah 7:16 
 
 • refused, 5
 
1 Samuel 16:7; 
Psalm 78:67; 
Psalm 118:22; 
Isaiah 54:6; 
Ezekiel 5:6 
 
 • refuseth, 1
 
Isaiah 8:6 
 
 • reject, 1
 
Hosea 4:6 
 
 • rejected, 20
 
1 Samuel 8:7(2); 
1 Samuel 10:19; 
1 Samuel 15:23(2); 
1 Samuel 15:26(2); 
1 Samuel 16:1; 
2 Kings 17:15; 
2 Kings 17:20; 
Jeremiah 2:37; 
Jeremiah 6:19; 
Jeremiah 6:30; 
Jeremiah 7:29; 
Jeremiah 8:9; 
Jeremiah 14:19(2); 
Lamentations 5:22(2); 
Hosea 4:6 
 
 • Reprobate, 1
 
Jeremiah 6:30