'Contempt' in the Bible

And the man who treats with contempt [so as] not to listen to the priest [who] [is] standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

So the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of Yahweh, because the men treated the offering of Yahweh with contempt.

Therefore,' {declares} Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor would walk before me forever, but now,' {declares} Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt!

Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have {ten times as much} in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt {by not giving me first chance} to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah [were] fiercer than the word of the men of Israel.

And he wrote letters to treat Yahweh the God of Israel with contempt and spoke against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the earth who did not save their people from my hand, so likewise the God of Hezekiah will not save his people from my hand."

For this deed of the queen {will be known} to all the women, causing them {to look with contempt on their husbands}, as they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him but she did not come!'

This day the women of nobility from Persia and Media will respond to all the officials of the king and there will be no end to contempt and anger.

{Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.

He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens [the] girdle of [the] mighty.

because I dreaded [the] great multitude, and [the] contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of [the] doorway?

for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.

Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call [me] to account."

Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.

How long, O God, will [the] adversary taunt? Will [the] enemy treat your name with contempt forever?

O Yahweh, remember this: [the] enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt.

[he] pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

{Remove from} me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.

For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of [the] arrogant.

He who is selfish seeks a craving; against all sound judgment he shows contempt.

With the coming of wickedness comes contempt also, and with dishonor, disgrace.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.

{But there will be no gloom for those who were in distress}. In former times he treated [the] land of Zebulun and Naphtali with contempt, but in the future he will honor the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee [of] the nations.

this [is] the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She shows contempt for you; she derides you, virgin daughter of Zion; she shakes [her] head behind you, daughter of Jerusalem.

They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.

And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.

For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; [the] enemies of a man [are] the men of his own house.

"I will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle.