Lexical Definition

‎מָאַס‎ mâʼaç (maw-as') to reject ^H:V
a primitive root

abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, vile person.

• to spurn
• also (intransitively) to disappear

1) to reject, despise, refuse
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to reject, refuse
1a2) to despise
1b) (Niphal) to be rejected
2) (Niphal) to flow, run

See Greek: αἴρω · ἀπαρνέομαι · ἀπειθέω · ἀπειπόμην · ἀποδοκιμάζω · ἀποῤῥίπτω · ἀπωθέομαι · ἀφαιρέω · ἀφίστημι · βούλημα · ἐγκαταλείπω · ἐξουδενόω · ἡγέομαι · θυμόω · μισέω · ὀλιγωρέω · προαιρέομαι · προσοχθίζω

Extended Information

• (Niphal) to flow, run

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: מָסַס

I. [‎מָאַס‎] verb reject (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎מְאַס‎ reject, despise; Ba^{ES 15} compare (dubious) Arabic lightly esteem (Kam.); Assyrian ma°âsu is perhaps destroy Meissn^{Suppl. 55}); —

Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎מָאַס‎ Isa 8:6 + 4 t; suffix ‎מְאָסָם‎ Ps 53:6* 2 masculine singular ‎מָאַסְתָּ‎ Jer 14:19 + 3 t.; ‎מָאַסְתָּה‎ Judg 9:38; 1Sam 15:26 + 22 t. Perfect; Imperfect ‎יִמְאַס‎ Job 8:20 + 3 t; ‎יִמְאָ֑ס‎ Ps 36:5*; Job 36:5 suffix ‎וַיִּמְאָֽסְךָ‎ 1Sam 15:23; 1Sam 15:26 for ‎וְאֶמְאָֽסְאךָ‎ Hos 4:6 (so Baer, compare De^{Complut. Var. 18 f.}; not ‎׳‎‎וָא‎ van d. H) read ‎וְאֶמְ˜אסְךָ‎; 3 masculine plural ‎יִמְאֲסוּ‎ Jer 6:19 + 2 t.; ‎יִמְאָס֑וּן‎ Isa 31:7 + 12 t. Imperfect; Infinitive absolute ‎מָאוֺס‎ Isa 7:15; Isa 7:16 ‎מָאֹס‎ Jer 14:19; Lam 5:22 cstr. ‎מָֽאָסְכֶם‎ Isa 30:12 ‎מָאֳסָם‎ Amos 2:4 Participle ‎מוֺאֵס‎ Prov 15:32 ‎מֹאֵס‎ Isa 33:15, feminine ‎מֹאֶסֶת‎ Ezek 21:15* (text dubious, Co ‎מוֺאֲסֵי‎; Berthol ‎וּמְאַסֵּף‎), v.Ezek 21:18* (also dubious, Co ‎מִטֻּמְאָתָס‎; Berthol ‎מְאַסֵּף‎); —

1. reject, refuse,
a. with accusative: God rejects men Hos 4:6; Hos 9:17; 1Sam 15:23; 1Sam 15:26; 1Sam 16:1; 1Sam 16:7; 2Kgs 23:27; Jer 7:29; Jer 14:19 (twice in verse); Jer 33:24; Jer 33:26; Lev 26:44 (H), Ps 53:6*; Job 8:20; Job 10:3; Lam 5:22 (twice in verse); ‎זָנַחְתָּ וַתִּמְאָס‎ Ps 89:39* men reject God Num 11:20 (J), 1Sam 8:7; 1Sam 10:19 men 1Sam 8:7; Job 30:1 idols Isa 31:7, evil Ps 36:5*, knowledge Hos 4:6, divine ‎תורה‎ Amos 2:4; Isa 5:24 ‎דבר‎ 1Sam 15:23; 1Sam 15:26, ‎חקות‎ Exod 20:24, ‎חקים‎2Kgs 17:15 ‎מוסר‎ Job 5:17; Prov 3:11 variant reading things Isa 8:6; Ezek 21:15*; Ps 118:22; Job 31:13.
b. with ‎בְ‎ God rejects men 2Kgs 17:20; Jer 6:30; Jer 31:37; Ps 78:59; Ps 78:67, that in which man confides Jer 2:37 men reject evil Isa 7:15; Isa 7:16, divine ‎תורה‎ Jer 6:19, ‎דבר‎ Isa 30:12; Jer 8:9 ‎חקות‎ Lev 26:15 (H); ‎משׁפטים‎ vLev 26:43 (H), Ezek 5:6; Ezek 20:13; Ezek 20:16 variant reading things, Num 14:31 (J) Isa 33:15; Jer 4:30; Ps 106:24.

2. despise, with accusative, God subject ‎שׂנאתי מאסתי חגיכם‎ Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts; elsewhere men subject ‎בי‎ ‎׳‎‎גם עוילים מ‎ Job 19:18 even young children despise me; ‎חיי‎ ‎׳‎‎אמ‎ Job 9:21 I despise my life, compare ‎מואס נפשׁוֺ‎ Prov 15:32 ‎בוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎הלא זה העם אשׁר מ‎ Judg 9:38 is not this the people that thou despisedst? ‎עָרִים‎‎׳‎‎מ‎ Isa 33:8 object omitted Job 7:16 (< join to preceding Me Siegf Du); Job 34:33; Job 36:5; Job 42:6 (ᵑ6 Siegf ‎אֶשְׁתֹּק‎; ᵐ5 ᵑ9 Symm Bö ‎אֶמָּאֵס‎) Ezek 21:18* (but see above). —

Niph`al be rejected: Imperfect ‎תִּמָּאֵם‎ Isa 54:6 (wife); Participle ‎נִמְאָס‎ Jer 6:30 (silver), Ps 15:4 ( = reprobate; opposed to ‎׳‎‎יִרְאֵי י‎); + feminine ‎נִמְאָסָה‎, ‎נִמְאֶסֶת‎ 1Sam 15:9 rejected, i.e. worthless (for HCT ‎נָמֵם‎) according to We Klo Dr Kit Bu HPS (|| ‎נמבזה‎, read ‎נִבְזָה‎; compare‎מסס‎, ‎בזה‎ Niph`al )

II. [‎מָאַס‎] verb Niph`al flow, run (Aramaic id., but rare and dubious; — secondary form of ‎מסס‎ q. v.); — Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎וַיִּמָּאֵס‎ Job 7:5 my skin hath hardened and run (i. e. again, afresh; > GHoffm Du read ‎וַיִּמַּס‎, Bu ‎וַיִּמָּאס‎, √ ‎מסס‎); 3 masculine plural ‎כְּמוֺ מַיִם יִמָּֽאֲסוּ‎ Ps 58:8* (figurative of annihilation of wicked). [‎מַאֲפֶה‎] see ‎אפה‎. ‎מַאֲפֵל‎, ‎מַאְפֵּלְיָה‎, see ‎אפל‎.

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