To detest
שִׁקֵּץStrong’s H8262shaqats (sha-qats)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaqats is the Hebrew word usually translated “consider detestable”, “make detestable” and “utterly”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to detest, make abominable, count filthy, make detestableto detest · to make detestable
How it's translated
- you will consider detestable 2
- you make detestable 1
- you will make detestable 1
- utterly 1
- you will detest it 1
- he has detested 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:13And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
- Leviticus 11:43Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
- Leviticus 20:25Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
- Deuteronomy 7:26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
- Psalms 22:24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁקֵּץ shaqats · to detest
1) (Piel) to detest, make abominable, count filthy, make detestable 1a) to detest 1b) to make detestable
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “detest” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DETEST, verb transitive
[Latin, to affirm or bear witness. The primary sense of testor is to set, throw or thrust. To detest is to thrust away.]
To abhor; to abominate; to hate extremely; as, to detest crimes or meanness.
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.