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# שֶׁקֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8263

**detestation** — used 11 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

detestation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8263/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫קֶץ: n.m. detestation, detestable thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8263/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 7:21 detestation, detestable thing;—שׁ׳ of the ceremonially unclean Lv 7:21; creatures forbidden as food: water animals without fins or scales 11:10, 11, 12, birds of prey, etc., v 13, winged creeping things v 20, 23, creeping vermin v 41, 42 (all P), cf. Is 66:17 (+ בְּשַׂר הַחֲזִיר, הָעַכְבָּר); v. RSSem. i. 275, 2nd ed. 293; K 309 f., 2nd ed. 311 f.—Ez 8:10 read prob. שִׁקּוּצִים, v. שִׁקּוּץ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] a detestable thing (4); \[are\] detestable thing\[s\] (3); detestable thing (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.20/#tree)

כֹּ֚ל שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָע֔וֹף הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ עַל־אַרְבַּ֑ע שֶׁ֥קֶץ ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* every (the).swarming.thing of.(the) insect \[which\] walks on four.\[legs\] \[is\].a.detestable.thing it to you

*JPS 1917:* All winged swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing unto you.

[Leviticus 11:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.41/#tree)

וְכָל־הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ שֶׁ֥קֶץ ה֖וּא לֹ֥א יֵאָכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and every (the).swarming thing \[which\] swarms on the earth \[is\].a.detestable.thing it not it.will.be.eaten

*JPS 1917:* And every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8263.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8263/): 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).