Original Language Studio
Esther 3:6
“And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H959 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to disesteem
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), [phrase] think to scorn, vile person.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּ֣בֶז — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 43 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 25:34Numbers 15:311 Samuel 2:301 Samuel 10:271 Samuel 17:42
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 בָּזָה 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.