Base – 1The bottom part of an item; 2Denoting or befitting a person of low social class; Low, short and of inferior quality; Low in the social scale (reprehensibly cowardly, selfish, or mean).
The use of the word is context sensitive.
Used by God 37 times: in the Masoretic Text Old Testament 22 times are as the bottom part of an item, and 12 times referring to inferior quality and low on the social scale (reprehensibly cowardly, selfish, or mean).
The other 3 instances occur in the Dispensation of Grace.
See also Abase, Debase