Abomination
תּוֹעֵבַהStrong’s H8441toevah (to-e-vah)
Appears in 112 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toevah is the Hebrew word usually translated “abomination of”, “abominations” and “abominations your”. It appears in 112 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.”
Meaning
- A disgusting thing, abomination, abominablein ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages) · in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)
How it's translated
- abomination of 23
- the abominations 15
- abominations your 14
- an abomination 12
- abominations their 6
- abominations 6
- according to abominations of 5
- abomination 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 41
- Proverbs 20
- Deuteronomy 16
- Jeremiah 8
- Leviticus 6
- 2 Chronicles 5
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 46:34That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
- Exodus 8:26And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
- Leviticus 18:22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- Leviticus 18:26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
- Leviticus 18:27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
- Leviticus 18:29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
All 112 verses, by book
- Exodus 1
- 8:26
- 1 Kings 1
- 14:24
- Psalms 1
- 88:8
- Proverbs 20
- 3:326:168:711:111:2012:2213:1915:815:915:2616:516:1217:1520:1020:2321:2724:926:2528:929:27
- Ezekiel 41
- 5:95:116:96:117:37:47:87:97:208:68:98:138:158:179:411:1811:2112:1614:616:216:2216:3616:4316:4716:5016:5116:5818:1218:1318:2420:422:222:1123:3633:2633:2936:3143:844:644:744:13
- Malachi 1
- 2:11
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹעֵבַה toevah · abomination
1) a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable 1a) in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages) 1b) in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)
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.