φαυλίζω
despise, belittle
Where this word appears
Every passage where φαυλίζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 25:34 φαυλίζω And Jacob gave bread to Esau, and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and he arose and departed; so Esau slighted his birthright.
- Numbers 15:31 φαυλίζω for he has set at nothing the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.
- 2 Samuel 12:9 φαυλίζω Why have you set at nothing the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? you have slain Urias the Chettite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
- Job 30:4 φαυλίζω Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in lack of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.
- Job 31:13 φαυλίζω And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me;
- Job 42:6 φαυλίζω Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.
- Proverbs 21:12 φαυλίζω A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly: and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.
- Proverbs 22:12 φαυλίζω But the eyes of the Lord preserve discretion; but the transgressor despises wise words.
- Isaiah 33:19 φαυλίζω even the small and great people? with whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand a people of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding to him that hears.
- Isaiah 37:22 φαυλίζω This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Sion has despised you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
- Isaiah 49:7 φαυλίζω Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake: for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.
- Malachi 1:6 φαυλίζω A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord Almighty. You⌃ the priests are they that despise my name: yet you⌃ said, Wherein have we despised your name?
- Malachi 1:6 φαυλίζω A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord Almighty. You⌃ the priests are they that despise my name: yet you⌃ said, Wherein have we despised your name?
About this word
About this word
φαυλίζω (phaulízō), “despise, belittle,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 13 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →