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2 Kings 17:15
“And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3988 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, [idiom] utterly, vile person.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּמְאֲס֣וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 76 times in the Hebrew Bible.Leviticus 26:15Leviticus 26:43Leviticus 26:44Numbers 11:20Numbers 14:31
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָאַס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.