To loath
בָּחֵלStrong’s H0973bachal (ba-chal)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bachal is the Hebrew word usually translated “it loathed”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.”
Meaning
- To loathe, abhor, feel loathing
How it's translated
- it loathed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בָּחֵל bachal · to loath
to loathe, abhor, feel loathing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “loath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOATH, LOATHE, LOATHER, noun
One that lothes.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.