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Numbers 14:11 יְנַאֲצֻ֖נִי will they spurn me

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

Here: 'They spurn me.' It means pushing someone away with disdain and treating them as worthless. The verb form describes behaviour that keeps going: 'will they keep on treating me with contempt?'

Numbers 14:23 מְנַאֲצַ֖י [those who] have spurned me

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

Here: 'Those spurning me.' The form describes a settled character, people who keep on treating God with contempt, and the verb is an intensive one. It picks up God's complaint in 14:11, 'How long will this people spurn me?' The fault named is contempt, a refusal to give God the honour he is due, not simply bad feeling.

Numbers 16:30 נִֽאֲצ֛וּ they have spurned

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

Deuteronomy 31:20 וְנִ֣אֲצ֔וּנִי and they will spurn me

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

Here: 'And they will spurn me.' Not just disobeying but treating God as worthless, holding him in contempt. A strong word for dishonouring someone.

Deuteronomy 32:19 וַיִּנְאָ֑ץ and he spurned

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Here: To treat with contempt and push away, to refuse to honor. Hebrew gives the verb no object here; English adds 'them'. It turns back on Israel what Israel did first: in 31:20 God predicts that Israel 'will spurn me and break my covenant' using this same verb. Now the one they spurned spurns them.

1 Samuel 2:17 נִֽאֲצוּ֙ they treated with contempt

Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.

2 Samuel 12:14 נִאֵ֤ץ נִאַ֙צְתָּ֙ indeed <declare contemptible>, you have declared contemptible

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

Here: This is the bare verb form (the infinitive), set before the same verb conjugated. Hebrew does this for emphasis: 'spurning, you spurned', meaning 'you have utterly spurned'.

Psalm 10:3 נִ֘אֵ֥ץ׀ he spurns

For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

Here: To treat with scorn, to despise someone owed honor. It is used of Israel spurning the LORD in the wilderness (Num 14:11, 23; 16:30). Placed straight after 'blessed,' it exposes what that 'blessing' really amounts to.

Psalm 10:13 נִאֵ֖ץ has he spurned

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Psalm 74:10 יְנָ֘אֵ֤ץ will he spurn?

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Psalm 74:18 נִֽאֲצ֥וּ they spurned

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Here: To treat with scorn, to dismiss as worthless. It covers contemptuous words but is broader than speech. The same verb appears in v. 10 ('will the enemy spurn your name forever?').

Psalm 107:11 נָאָֽצוּ׃ they had spurned

because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

Here: 'They spurned.' A strong word for open contempt, treating something as worthless and insulting the one behind it. It echoes the sound of ʿăṣat ('counsel'), so 'counsel' and 'spurned' bracket the second line with matching sounds.

Proverbs 1:30 נָ֝אֲצ֗וּ they spurned

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

Here: 'They spurned.' This is stronger than ignoring. It means treating something as worthless and scorning it openly, and elsewhere it is used for contempt shown to God himself. In Hebrew it also sounds like 'atsati ('my counsel'), so the line chimes: they na'atsu her 'etsah.

Proverbs 5:12 נָאַ֥ץ it spurned

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Here: "Spurned." A contemptuous rejection, treating something as worthless. Elsewhere it is used for despising God or his word (Numbers 14:11; Psalm 107:11). It is stronger than simply ignoring.

Proverbs 15:5 יִ֭נְאַץ he spurns

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

Here: A strong word: active contempt, not just ignoring advice. Elsewhere it is used for Israel spurning God himself. The imperfect verb describes what this person does as a habit.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 וְיָנֵ֤אץ and it may blossom

when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

Here: The spelling matches a root meaning 'spurn', but almost everyone, ancient and modern, reads it as 'blossoms' (cf. Song 6:11). The almond bursts into white bloom.

Isaiah 1:4 נִֽאֲצ֛וּ they have spurned

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Here: They have treated him with contempt and scorned him. In an honour-and-shame culture this is a public insult to a superior, not a private feeling.

Isaiah 5:24 נִאֵֽצוּ׃ they have spurned

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Here: 'They have spurned': treating someone as worthless and holding them in contempt in practice. It is the exact form used in Isa 1:4, 'they have spurned the Holy One of Israel'.

Isaiah 52:5 מִנֹּאָֽץ׃ [is] reviled

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

Here: A participle that describes an ongoing state: "is being treated with contempt" or "scorned". It covers both mocking words and a dismissive attitude, as if God were a nobody.

Isaiah 60:14 מְנַֽאֲצָ֑יִךְ [those who] despised you

The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Here: "Those who spurned / treated you with contempt." A strong word for scornful rejection. Isaiah elsewhere uses it for Israel spurning the Holy One of Israel (1:4; 5:24), and here the same title closes the verse.

Jeremiah 14:21 תִּנְאַץ֙ you spurn

For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

Here: 'Spurn' in the form used for requests. No object is written. In context it is the people ('us', v. 19), and possibly also Zion and its throne. It means more than disliking: it is to throw off with contempt, the way Israel had treated God (Num 14:11).

Jeremiah 23:17 לִֽמְנַאֲצַ֔י to [those who] despise me

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

Here: 'To those who spurn me.' God speaks: the prophets' audience is people who openly treat YHWH with contempt. The irony is sharp: the very people who despise God are promised his blessing.

Jeremiah 33:24 יִנְאָצ֔וּן they spurn !

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Here: 'They spurn.' It means to treat with open contempt or disdain. The ongoing verb form, with an extra emphatic ending (-ûn), suggests a continuing attitude: they keep holding them in contempt.

Lamentations 2:6 וַיִּנְאַ֥ץ and he has spurned

He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

Here: To reject someone with contempt. Elsewhere this is usually what Israel does to Yahweh (Num 14:11; Isa 1:4). Here the direction is reversed and Yahweh does it to Israel's leaders.