Abomination
שִׁקּוּץStrong’s H8251shiqquts (shiq-quts)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shiqquts is the Hebrew word usually translated “detestable things their”, “detestable thing of” and “detestable things your”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Meaning
- Detestable thing or idol, abominable thing, abomination, idol, detested thing
How it's translated
- detestable things their 7
- detestable thing of 5
- detestable things your 3
- the detestable things 2
- detestable things of 2
- abomination 2
- detestable things 2
- and detestable things their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 8
- Jeremiah 5
- Daniel 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Deuteronomy 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:31In contextAnd arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
- Daniel 12:11In contextAnd from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
- Zechariah 9:7In contextAnd I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
- Deuteronomy 29:17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
- 1 Kings 11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:7Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁקּוּץ shiqquts · abomination
detestable thing or idol, abominable thing, abomination, idol, detested thing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “abomination” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABOMINA'TION, noun
- Extreme hatred; detestation.
- The object of detestation, a common signification in scripture.“The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord” Proverbs 15:8
- Hence, defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil doctrines and practices, which are moral defilements, idols and idolatry, are called abominations. Matthew 24:15
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.