נ־א־ץ

Hebrew

Etymology

Cognate to the roots of Akkadian naʾāṣum (“to spurn”) and Aramaic נִיאוּצָא (nîʾûṣâʾ, “revile”).

Root

נ־א־ץ • (n-ʾ-ṣ)

1. Root relating to contempt.

Derived terms

Verbs

• Pa'al: נָאַץ (nāʾaṣ, na'áts, “to condemn”)
• Pi'el: ניאץ / נִאֵץ (niʾēṣ, ni'éts, “to insult, blaspheme”)
  • Verbal noun: ניאוץ / נִאוּץ (niʾûṣ, ni'úts, “blasphemy”)
• Hitpa'el: הִתְנָאֵץ (hiṯnāʾēṣ, hitna'éts, “to be despised”)
  • Verbal noun: הִתְנָאֲצוּת (hitna'atsút, “self-humiliation”)

Nouns

• נַאַץ (náʾaṣ, ná'ats, “blasphemy”)
• נְאָצָה (nəʾāṣâ, ne'atsá, “blasphemy”)

Adjectives

• מנואץ / מְנֹאָץ (mənōʾāṣ, meno'áts, “despised”)

References

• H5006 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “נאץ” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שׁוֹשָׁן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ (ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם)‎ (1984), →ISBN, volume 3 of 3 (ק to ת).
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “נאץ”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 401