Detestation
שֶׁ֫קֶץStrong’s H8263sheqets (she-qets)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheqets is the Hebrew word usually translated “detestable thing”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.”
Meaning
- Detestable thing or idol, an unclean thing, an abomination, detestation
How it's translated
- a detestable thing 5
- detestable thing 4
- and detestable thing 1
- and the detestable thing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- Leviticus 11:11They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
- Leviticus 11:12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- 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 11:20All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫קֶץ sheqets · detestation
detestable thing or idol, an unclean thing, an abomination, detestation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “detestation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DETESTATION, noun
Extreme hatred; abhorrence; with of. The good man entertains uniformly a detestation of sin.
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.