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# קוּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6973

**feel a loathing** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

feel a loathing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6973/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוּץ: vb. feel loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6973/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feel a loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread (‖ √ of קוט; 𝔗 קוּץ id.; for connex. of meanings cf. Aramaic קְנַט loathe, ܩܢܰܛ fear);— Pf. 3 fs. קָ֫צָה Nu 21:5; 1 s. קַ֫צְתִּי Gn 27:46; Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּ֫קָץ Nu 22:3; 1 K 11:25 (but v. infr.); 2 ms. juss. תָּקֹץ Pr 3:11; 1 s. וָאָקֻץ Lv 20:23; 3 mpl. וַיָּקֻצוּ Ex 1:12; Pt. קָץ Is 7:16;— feel a loathing at, abhor, c. ב rei Nu 21:5 (JE), Gn 27:46 (P), Pr 3:11 (‖ מָאַס); c. ב pers. Lv 20:23 (H; subj. י׳); so 1 K 11:25, but Kit (after 𝔖, cf. 𝔊) proposes וַיָּ֫צֶק (√ צוק Hiph. distress). feel a sickening dread, c. מִפְּנֵי pers. Ex 1:12 (J), Nu 22:3 (E), Is 7:16. Impf. 1 pl. sf. נְקִיצֶנָּה Is 7:6 (sf. of Judah) let us cause her sickening dread, but weak, read נְצִיקֶנָּה (√ צוק) Thes Che Du Gr Marti.—Other Hiph. forms v. קיץ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I loathe (1); I loathed (1); \[are\] feeling dread (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 3:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.11/#tree)

מוּסַ֣ר יְ֭הוָה בְּנִ֣י אַל־תִּמְאָ֑ס וְאַל־תָּ֝קֹ֗ץ בְּתוֹכַחְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.discipline of.Yahweh my.son my do.not reject and do.not loath (in) rebuke his

*JPS 1917:* My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction;

[Exodus 1:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.12/#tree)

וְכַאֲשֶׁר֙ יְעַנּ֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ כֵּ֥ן יִרְבֶּ֖ה וְכֵ֣ן יִפְרֹ֑ץ וַיָּקֻ֕צוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and just as people.afflicted it so it.increased and so it.spread and people.felt.dread of the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6973.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6973/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).