Shaqats שִׁקֵּץ

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Shaqats
שִׁקֵּץ
Transliterationshaqats
Strong's numberH8262
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto detest
Occurrences7 in 6 verses
Most frequent inLeviticus (4)

Shaqats (Hebrew שִׁקֵּץ, Strong's H8262) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to detest”. It occurs 7 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) (Piel) to detest, make abominable, count filthy, make detestable
1a) to detest
1b) to make detestable

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVabomination (2), abominable (2), make (1), utterly detest (1), abhorred (1)
BSByou must detest (1), you are to detest (1), defile (1), become contaminated (1), you are to utterly detest (1), detested (1)

Verses

Every verse with Shaqats, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

Deuteronomy

Psalms

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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