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H7034Hebrew

קָלָה

Definition and meaning

qalah (kaw-law') v. 1. to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt) [a primitive root] KJV: base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.

Tagged KJV passages

6 matching verses - 6.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Deuteronomy 25:3

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Matched English: vileDeuteronomy 27:16

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Matched English: light1 Samuel 18:23

And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

Matched English: esteemedProverbs 12:9

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Matched English: despisedIsaiah 3:5

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Matched English: baseIsaiah 16:14

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

Matched English: contemned