Loathsome
זָרָאStrong’s H2214zara (za-ra)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zara is the Hebrew word usually translated “loathsome thing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?”
Meaning
- Nausea, loathing, loathsome thing
How it's translated
- a loathsome thing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זָרָא zara · loathsome
nausea, loathing, loathsome thing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “loathsome” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOATHSOME, adjective
- Disgusting; exciting disgust.
- Hateful; abhorred; detestable.
- Causing fastidiousness. [See Lothesome.]
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.