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# שִׁקֵּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8262

**detest** — used 7 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

detest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8262/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁקֵּץ: vb. denom. detest, make detestable [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8262/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. detest, make detestable;—Pf. 3 ms. שִׁקַּץ ψ 22:25; Impf. 2 mpl. תְּשַׁקְּצוּ Lv 11:13 +, etc.; Inf. abs. שַׁקֵּץ Dt 7:26;— detest, c. acc. rei Dt 7:26 (Impf. + Inf. abs.; ‖ תַּעֵב תְּתַעֲבֶנּוּ), Lv 11:11, 13 (P); ‖ בָּזָה ψ 22:25. make detestable, obj. נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם (= reflex.) Lv 11:43 (P), 20:25 (H).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you will detest (2); he has detested (1); make detestable (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.11/#tree)

וְשֶׁ֖קֶץ יִהְי֣וּ לָכֶ֑ם מִבְּשָׂרָם֙ לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֔לוּ וְאֶת־נִבְלָתָ֖ם תְּשַׁקֵּֽצוּ׃

*Word for word:* and detestable.thing\[s\] they.will.be to you any of their.meat not you.must.eat and (et) carcass their you.will.detest

*JPS 1917:* and they shall be a detestable thing unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in detestation.

[Leviticus 11:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.43/#tree)

אַל־תְּשַׁקְּצוּ֙ אֶת־נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בְּכָל־הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵ֑ץ וְלֹ֤א תִֽטַּמְּאוּ֙ בָּהֶ֔ם וְנִטְמֵתֶ֖ם בָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* do.not make.detestable (et) selves your by any (the).swarming thing \[which\] swarms and not you.must.make.yourselves.unclean by them and you.will.make.yourselves.unclean by them

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarmeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8262.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8262/): 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).