Nāʾaṣ describes contemptuous treatment or rejection in selected passages about worship, correction and divine counsel. First Samuel 2:17 identifies the severe sin of Eli's sons in treating the Lord's offering with contempt.
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Nāʾaṣ describes contemptuous treatment or rejection in selected passages about worship, correction and divine counsel. First Samuel 2:17 identifies the severe sin of Eli's sons in treating the LORD's offering with contempt.
The BSB source-word alignment has 25 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include and despised (2), . . . (1), [is] blasphemed (1), and reviles (1), and they will reject Me (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Numbers 14:11. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (5), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (3), Numbers (3).
Nāʾaṣ describes contemptuous treatment or rejection in selected passages about worship, correction and divine counsel. First Samuel 2:17 identifies the severe sin of Eli's sons in treating the Lord's offering with contempt. The preceding demands for meat and threat to take it by force make that contempt concrete conduct, not merely a listener's lack of deference to a religious officeholder.
Proverbs 15:5 contrasts rejecting a father's discipline with prudent attention to correction. Numbers 14:11 identifies contempt toward the Lord alongside refusal to believe despite His signs, while Psalm 107:11 names despising the Most High's counsel before recounting a cry for help and deliverance. These contexts should not be used to label every question, safety boundary or report of a leader's misconduct as contempt for God. The tagged almond-blossom passage in Ecclesiastes requires separate source investigation and is not redefined as scorn through this study's selected verbal explanation.
Coercive treatment of an offering, rejection of correction, refusal despite divine signs and despised counsel illustrate concrete contempt. The selected uses retain accountable conduct and the possibility of deliverance without making a leader's personal preference equivalent to God's word.
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.
The sons' contempt for the offering follows demands and threats to seize meat by force. Their religious position does not make that conduct an acceptable claim on worshipers.
A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
Rejecting paternal discipline is contrasted with prudently heeding correction. The proverb does not independently approve every instruction any present authority figure might give.
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?
The Lord names contempt and refusal to believe despite the signs He has performed. The surrounding threat to stone Joshua and Caleb makes this more than an ordinary request for clarification.
Because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Despised divine counsel explains the described prisoners' situation before their cry and rescue. That particular account cannot diagnose every present prisoner's suffering or close the door to help.
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Hebrew word. Expressing vehement rejection through contempt; in Ecclesiastes, anomalously means "to bloom" via textual confusion.
Expressing vehement rejection through contempt; in Ecclesiastes, anomalously means "to bloom" via textual confusion.
to scorn; or (in Ecclesiastes 12:5), by interchange for 5132, to bloom BDB: contemn Usage: abhor, (give occasion to) blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, × great, provoke.
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נָאַץ is a primitive root - no further derivation.
Despising the word of the Holy One reveals hardened rebellion rather than ignorance.Isaiah 5:24-30
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First Samuel 2 locates contempt within priestly conduct: forceful demands over the offering violate the worship setting rather than being excused by the sons' religious position. This prevents a reading that always assigns contempt to the less powerful person who resists an official's demand. Proverbs values correction, but its wisdom does not turn every leader's preference into a divine command that cannot be questioned.
Numbers identifies refusal despite signs within a specific rebellion narrative. Psalm 107 likewise gives an explicit account of despised divine counsel, then recounts the Lord's response when the distressed people cry out. These passages name serious rejection while leaving correction and deliverance visible. Acts 5:27-32 offers a Christian comparison in which the apostles distinguish obedience to God from a human prohibition. Teaching should therefore evaluate actual conduct and instruction instead of equating questioning, reporting harm or refusing an unsafe demand with contempt for God. The Ecclesiastes blossom tagging remains a separate source question, not an exception silently repaired here.
1Sam.2.17
The selected contempt verb is documented in the licensed lexical entry, while the local tagged almond-blossom use presents a separate source question. This study does not correct that tagging or merge bloom and scorn; rejected object and narrated conduct govern its selected explanation.
Acts 5:27-32 records the apostles distinguishing obedience to God from obedience to the council's prohibition. This offers a Christian comparison against equating every human authority demand with God's counsel. It does not make nāʾaṣ an apostolic Greek term or certify every contemporary refusal as righteous without examining its actual basis.