Malachi 1:7
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
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Contemptible
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2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
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בָּזָה
bâzâh · baw-zaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
to disesteem
Strong's KJV usage: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), think to scorn, vile person.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Malachi 1:7Strong's last: Malachi 2:9
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exouthenéō · ex-oo-then-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: :--contemptible, despise, least esteemed, set at nought.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:10Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 10:10
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Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
H959
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
H959
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
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contemptible
CONTEMPTIBLE, adjective [Latin]
1. Worthy of contempt; that deserves scorn, or disdain; despicable; mean; vile. Intemperance is a contemptible vice. No plant or animal is so contemptible as not to exhibit evidence of the wonderful power and wisdom of the Creator.
The pride that leads to dueling is a contemptible passion.
2. Apt to despise; contemptuous. [Not legitimate.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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