Strong's Concordance
Original word: קָלָה
Transliteration: qalah
Definition (short): degraded
Definition (full): to be lightly esteemed or dishonored
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to be lightly esteemed or dishonored
NASB Translation: degraded (2), dishonors (1), inferior (1), lightly esteemed (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be (causatively, hold) in contempt) -- base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.
References
KJV:
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.
NASB:
"He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.
KJV:
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
NASB:
'Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
KJV:
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?
NASB:
So Saul's servants spoke these words to David. But David said, "Is it trivial in your sight to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?"
KJV:
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
NASB:
Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant Than he who honors himself and lacks bread.
KJV:
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.
NASB:
And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.