The Hebrew bazoh is the passive participle of bazah (to despise, hold in contempt). It describes something or someone who is despised, scorned, or treated as worthless. The word appears in one of Scripture's most poignant texts: "like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised" (Isaiah 53:3).
The concept of being bazoh — despised — reaches its theological apex in the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53. The very thing that marks human shame and rejection becomes the pathway for salvation. Jesus, the fulfillment of Isaiah's Servant, was despised and rejected (Isaiah 53:3), yet through that despising, God accomplished the greatest act of redemption. What humans counted as worthless, God used as the instrument of salvation.