נאץ

• (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]

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]‎, 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.

נָאַץ • (nāʾaṣ, na'áts) third-singular masculine past (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]‎, 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 […]

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

נִאֵץ • (niʾēṣ, ni'éts) third-singular masculine past (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of ניאץ

• 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, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 401