מָאַס mâʼaç — to spurn
Translated in the KJV as abhor, cast away, contemn, despise, disdain, loathe, melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, × utterly, vile person.
a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear.
mâʼaç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 35Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Wayyiqtol 10Participle (active) 4Infinitive absolute 4Jussive 2Infinitive construct 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›