Abject
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (a.) Cast down; low-lying.
(2): (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
(3): (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
(4): (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Abject . In Psalms 35:15 ‘abject’ occurs as a noun, as in Herbert’s Temple ‘Servants and abjects flout me.’
King James Dictionary [3]
ABJECT', To throw away to cast out. Obs.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
ab´jekt : Only as a noun, and but once ( Psalm 35:15 ) for נכה , nēkheh , literally, "smitten ones," i.e. "men of the lowest grade" (Hengstenberg, Delitzsch), "the rabble," defined by the succeeding clause as those of such inferior station that they were unknown.
