נאץ

Hebrew

Root
נ־א־ץ (n-ʾ-ts)

Pronunciation

• (Noun):
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈna.(ʔ)at͡s/
  • Homophone: נַעַץ (náʿaṣ, ná'ats)
• (Pa'al):
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /naˈ(ʔ)at͡s/
  • (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [nɔˈʔasˤ]
  • Homophone: נָעַץ (nāʿaṣ, na'áts)
• (Pi'el):
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /niˈ(ʔ)et͡s/
  • (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [niˈʔeːsˤ]

Noun

נַאַץ • (ná'ats) m (no plural forms, singular construct נַאַץ־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. (Medieval Hebrew, poetic, rare) contempt or blasphemy
   • c. 500 CE, Yanai, liturgy for Yom Kippur; edited and published in מנחם זולאי [Menahem Zulay], editor, פיוטי יניי [Piyuté Yanái, Piyutim of Yanai]‎^[1], Berlin: Shocken, 1938, page 324 (שכד):

     תְּנַקֶּה נַאַץ נִיבּוּלֵינוּ / תִּימְחֶה מוֹקְשֵׁי מַעֲשֵׂינוּ

     tenaké ná'ats nibulénu / timkhé mokshé ma'asénu

     You will purify the blasphemy of our filth,
     Wipe out the obstacles of our deeds.

Verb

נָאַץ • (nāʾaṣ, na'áts) (pa'al construction) (chiefly Biblical Hebrew)

1. (transitive) to spurn, despise
   • Tanach, Proverbs 5:12, with translation of the New International Version:

     וְאָמַרְתָּ אֵיךְ שָׂנֵאתִי מוּסָר וְתוֹכַחַת נָאַץ לִבִּי׃

     wəʾāmartā ʾêḵə śānēʾṯî mûsār wətôḵáḥaṯ nāʾaṣ libbî

     You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!”

   • Tanach, Jeremiah 33:24, with translation of the King James Version:

     וְאֶת־עַמִּי יִנְאָצוּן מִהְיוֹת עוֹד גּוֹי לִפְנֵיהֶם׃

     wəʾeṯ-ʿammî yinʾāṣûn mihyôṯ ʿôḏ gôy lip̄nêhem

     Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

2. (intransitive) to be angry
   • 1833, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, letter to Samuel David Luzzatto; published in אגרות שי״ר [Igrót Shír, Letters of Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport]‎^[2], volume 1, Przemyśl, 1885, page 224:

     […] עד אראך שוקט ומביט במכון האמת לא לכעוס ולא לנאוץ, רק להשכיל ולדעת דבר על אפניו […]

     […] ád er'ékha shokét umabít bimkhón ha'emét ló likh'ós veló lin'óts, rák lehaskíl veladá'at davár ál ofanáv […]

     […] until I see you collected and studying the seat of truth not in order to vex yourself and be angry, but just to study and know it front to back […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of נָאַץ (see also Appendix:Hebrew verbs) 

non-finite forms		to-infinitive: לנאוץ / לִנְאֹץ action noun: — passive participle: —
finite forms		singular		plural
		m.	f.	m.	f.
past	first	נָאַצְתִּי		נָאַצְנוּ
	second	נָאַצְתָּ	נָאַצְתְּ	נְאַצְתֶּם1	נְאַצְתֶּן1
	third	נָאַץ	נָאֲצָה	נָאֲצוּ
present		נוֹאֵץ	נוֹאֶצֶת	נוֹאֲצִים	נוֹאֲצוֹת
future	first	אֶנְאַץ		נִנְאַץ
	second	תִּנְאַץ	תִּנְאֲצִי	תִּנְאֲצוּ	תִּנְאַצְנָה2
	third	יִנְאַץ	תִּנְאַץ	יִנְאֲצוּ	תִּנְאַצְנָה2
imperative		נְאַץ	נַאֲצִי	נַאֲצוּ	נְאַצְנָה2
notes		Pronounced נָאַצְתֶּם and נָאַצְתֶּן in informal Modern Hebrew. Rare in Modern Hebrew.

Synonyms

• (spurn): בָּז (bāz, báz), בָּזָה (bāzâ, bazá), מָאַס (māʾas, ma'ás)
• (be angry): כָּעַס (kāʿas, ka'ás), קָצַף (qāṣap̄, katsáf), הִתְרַגֵּז (hiṯraggēz, hitragéz)

Verb

נִאֵץ • (niʾēṣ, ni'éts) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of ניאץ

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^[3], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 401