To loathe
תָּאַבStrong’s H8581taav (ta-av)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taav is the Hebrew word usually translated “abhor”, “abhor me” and “utterly”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“Neither 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.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to loathe, abhor
How it's translated
- you will abhor 2
- they abhor me 2
- and utterly 1
- you will abhor it 1
- and he acted abominably 1
- it was abhorred 1
- and they will abhor me 1
- is abhorrent 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Job 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 23:7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
- 1 Kings 21:26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 21:6But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
- Job 9:31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- Job 19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Hebrew dictionary
תָּאַב taav · to loathe
(Piel) to loathe, abhor Another spelling of ta.av (תַּעָב "to abhor" H8581)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “utterly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UT'TERLY, adverb
To the full extent; fully; perfectly; totally; as utterly tired; utterly debased; utterly lost to all sense of shame; It is utterly vain; utterly out of my power.
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.