H7034 קָלָה

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 6 KJV occurrences

קָלָה

qâlâh · kaw-law'

Definition

to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt)

KJV Renderings

base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.

Derivation / Etymology

a primitive root;

KJV Verses (6)

Deuteronomy 25:3Forty 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.
Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
1 Samuel 18:23And 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?
Proverbs 12:9He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Isaiah 3:5And 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.
Isaiah 16:14But 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.