---
title: בּוּזָה — contempt · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בּוּזָה (939), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: contempt. BDB 1906: n.f. contempt. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/939.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1489.md)‎ / בּוּזָה‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# בּוּזָה

<!-- .meta -->
«בּוּזָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **contempt** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 939 · **BDB:** בּוּזָה

### Glosses

contempt (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

contempt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/939/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. contempt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/939/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. contempt Ne 3:36 הָיִינוּ בּ׳ we have become (an object of) contempt.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בּוּזָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/939/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Nehemiah 3:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.36/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
שְׁמַ֤ע אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ כִּֽי־הָיִ֣ינוּ בוּזָ֔ה וְהָשֵׁ֥ב חֶרְפָּתָ֖ם אֶל־רֹאשָׁ֑ם וּתְנֵ֥ם לְבִזָּ֖ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁבְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* hear our.God O (dm) we.are contempt and return reproach their to head their.own and give them to plunder in a.land of.captivity

*JPS 1917:* Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [בּוּז](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/938.md)
- next →: [בּוּזִי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/940.md)
- ↑ back to [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1489.md)