Deuteronomy 25:3Mapped KJV word: vile
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Search Scripture without fighting the search box.
Type a word, phrase, reference, or idea. Keep it simple when you want to find something quickly; open Advanced Search when you need SwordSearcher-level control.
KJV Word ExplorerBrowse every indexed Bible word, see frequency, and open a word profile.Ready
ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S
Open Bibleקָלָה
H7034 · qâlâh · kaw-law' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be [causatively, hold] in contempt)
KJV usage
base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.
6mapped occurrences
6verses
6KJV renderings
Hebrewlanguage
KJV renderings in this mapping
vile 1light 1esteemed 1despised 1base 1contemned 1
Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).
Mapped occurrences
Deuteronomy 27:16Mapped KJV word: light
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
1 Samuel 18:23Mapped KJV word: esteemed
And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
Proverbs 12:9Mapped KJV word: despised
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Isaiah 3:5Mapped KJV word: base
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah 16:14Mapped KJV word: contemned
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.