# H3988 מָאַס

מָאַס (mâʼaç), Strong’s H3988: to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear KJV: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away…. Occurs 75 times.

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*mâʼaç* — to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear

KJV: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away…

Occurs 75 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מָאַס] vb. Niph. flow, run
- מָאַס vb
- [מָאַס] vb. reject
- Qal
- 1 reject, refuse
- 2 despise
- Niph. be rejected

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 26:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=15) — and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my…
- [Leviticus 26:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=43) — The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will…
- [Leviticus 26:44](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=44) — Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to…
- [Numbers 11:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=20) — but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD…
- [Numbers 14:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=31) — But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you…
- [Judges 9:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=38) — Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t…
- [1 Samuel 8:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/8?v=7) — The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you…
- [1 Samuel 10:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=19) — But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you…
- [1 Samuel 15:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=23) — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the…
- [1 Samuel 15:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=26) — Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the LORD’s word, and the LORD has rejected you…