to reject
za.nach describes casting off people, possessions, or sacred things, often amid distress or restoration.
The occurrences show a single broad use of casting off or treating someone or something as set aside: people may be excluded, a community may lament divine abandonment, and objects or sacred places may be disowned or discarded. The same language can be denied as final, as the LORD is said not to cast off forever and restoration is described as though rejection had not occurred.
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Casting off persons, things, or sacred places · dominant
The forms occur where Solomon is warned that forsaking God will bring being cast off in 1 Chronicles 28:9, and where Jeroboam and his sons exclude Levites from ministering in 2 Chronicles 11:14. In Hosea 8:3 and Lamentations 2:7, the APB renders the clauses with Israel’s rejection of the good and the LORD’s rejection of his altar; Psalm 74:1 voices the community’s complaint of being rejected. Zechariah 10:6 frames restoration as being as though the people had not been rejected.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB uses “cast you off,” “rejected,” “discarded,” and “disowned.” These are whole-verse presentations for each occurrence.