Bible Dictionary: Contemptuous

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.

Strong's Hebrew

206. Aven -- "wickedness," a contemptuous synonym for two places
... 205, 206. Aven. 207 . "wickedness," a contemptuous synonym for two places.
Transliteration: Aven Phonetic Spelling: (aw'-ven) Short Definition: Aven. ...
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Library

The Contemptuous Rejection.
... The Tragic Break in the Plan The Contemptuous Rejection. From ... Hill. First
came the contemptuous rejection. John was a great man. ...
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September the Sixth Contemptuous Words
... SEPTEMBER The Sixth CONTEMPTUOUS WORDS. MATTHEW xv.21-28. I wonder if this
word "dogs" was my Saviour's word, or had He picked it ...
/.../september the sixth contemptuous words.htm

Whether Religious are Bound to Manual Labor?
... For in the first place, as to prayer, he says: "One prayer of the obedient man is
sooner granted than ten thousand prayers of the contemptuous": meaning that ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether religious are bound to.htm

A Savage Duel.
... The character of Pilate comes out plainly here. He really feared these wildly fanatical
Jews whom he ruled with a contemptuous disgust undisguised. ...
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Warp-Threads.
... With the same evidence at hand, first contemptuous silence and loving allegiance,
then the beginnings of bitterest hate and of tenderest personal love, grow up ...
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Hebrews iii. 11-Jul
... For as unbelief brings forth an evil life, so also a soul, "when it is come into
a depth of evils, becometh contemptuous" [2813] ( Proverbs 18:3 ), and having ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily vi hebrews iii 11-jul.htm

Jesus Before Herod.
... But he spoke in the most contemptuous manner to Jesus, and turning to the guards
and servants who surrounded him, and who were about two hundred in number, said ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter xx jesus before herod.htm

The Long, Rough Road He Trod
... It ran through three stages, the silent contemptuous rejection, the active aggressive
rejection, then the hardened, murderous rejection running up to the ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on following the christ/the long rough road he.htm

Jewish views on Trade, Tradesmen, and Trades' Guilds
... Most aristocratic and exclusive, contemptuous of mere popular cries, yet at the
same time most democratic and liberal; law-abiding, and with the profoundest ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 11 jewish views on.htm

Significant Phrases
... customs and manners. cynical and contemptuous. D. ... flighty and impetuous. flippant
and contemptuous. florid and healthy [florid = ornate; flowery]. flotsam and jetsam ...
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Thesaurus

Contemptuous (2 Occurrences)
...Contemptuous (2 Occurrences). ... (See NIV). Proverbs 19:16 He who keeps the commandment
keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die. (WEB NIV). ...
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Contemptible (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. 3. (a.) Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
Multi-Version Concordance Contemptible (14 Occurrences). ...
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Jesse (45 Occurrences)
... (b) The next mention of Jesse is in three contemptuous references by Saul to David
as "the son of Jesse" in 1 Samuel 20:27, 30, 31, part of the quarrel-scene ...
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Despite (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. 3. (n.) An
act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt. ...
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Mockery (12 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision;
ridicule. 3. (n.) Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. ...
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Contemptuously (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain;
despitefully. Multi-Version Concordance Contemptuously (4 Occurrences). ...
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Spurn (13 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition
or resistance. ... 6. (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment. ...
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Violation (6 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous
treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. ...
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Lamentable (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
Multi-Version Concordance Lamentable (1 Occurrence). ...
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Lip (20 Occurrences)
... moment" (Proverbs 12:19). "To shoot out the lip" (Psalm 22:7) means to make
a mocking, contemptuous, scornful face. As the lips are ...
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Bible Concordance

Contemptuous (2 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 17:13 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 19:16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
(WEB NIV)

Subtopics

Contemptuous

Related Terms

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