Toevah תּוֹעֵבַה

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Toevah
תּוֹעֵבַה
Transliterationtoevah
Strong's numberH8441
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossabomination
Occurrences117 in 112 verses
Most frequent inEzekiel (41)

Toevah (Hebrew תּוֹעֵבַה, Strong's H8441) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “abomination”. It occurs 117 times in 112 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable
1a) in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages)
1b) in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)

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

Translated as

KJVabominations (61), abomination (52), abominable (2), thing (1), things (1)
BSBabominations (35), is detestable (17), abomination (12), your abominations (8), are detestable (7), their abominations (5), detestable (3), detests (3), detestable things (2), according to the abominations (2), following the abominations (2), are an abomination (2), and 16 other renderings

Verses

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

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Deuteronomy

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Malachi

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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