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# תּוֹעֵבַה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8441

**abomination** — used 117 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

abomination [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8441/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹעֵבָה: n.f. abomination [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8441/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. abomination;—abs. ת׳ Gn 43:32 + 21 times; תֹּעֵבָה Je 44:4; cstr. תּוֹעֲבַת Gn 46:34 +; pl. תּוֹעֵבוֹת Ez 8:6 +; cstr. תּוֹעֲבוֹת 6:11 +, etc.; sf. תֹּעֲבֹתָיו 2 Ch 36:8, etc.;— ritual sense: Isr.’s sacrifices, ת׳ מִצְרַיִם (gen. obj.) Ex 8:22(×2) (E), cf. Gn 46:34 (J); ת׳ למצרים 43:32 (J); ת׳ לְ of physical repugnance ψ 88:9. to God and his people: ת׳ of unclean food Dt 14:3; worshipper of idols Is 41:24, cf.Je 2:7; various objectionable acts: ת׳ לפני י׳ Dt 24:4; ת׳ י׳ 7:25 (חֵרֶם, cf. v 26), 17:1; 18:12; 22:5; 23:19; 27:15; offering of children (עשׂה) 12:31, cf. Je 32:35, also pl. 2 K 16:3 = 2 Ch 28:3, Dt 18:9, 12 (+ witchcraft); idolatrous practices (sometimes with other illegal acts) עשׂה (ך)ת׳ Dt 13:15; 17:4; Ez 16:50; 18:12; Mal 2:11 (intermarriage with idolaters), cf. Je 44:4; usually c. pl. noun Dt 20:18; 1 K 14:24; 2 K 21:2, 11; 2 Ch 33:2; 36:8; Je 7:10; 44:22; Ez 8:6 + 12 times Ez.; cf. תועבות 2 Ch 36:14; Ezr 9:1, 11, 14; Ez 5:9 + 18 times Ez.; of idols Dt 32:16; (תועבה) 2 K 23:13; Is 44:19 (cf. Dt 27:15); idolatrous objects 2 Ch 34:33; ‖ שׁקּוצים Je 16:18 (RJE) Ez 5:11; 11:18, 21, (צַלְמֵי ת׳) 7:20; ‖ גלולים 14:6, cf. 6:9; גִּלּוּלֵי ת׳ 16:36. ethical sense: c. gen. obj. of man, ת׳ שְׂפָתַי Pr 8:7, ת׳ מלכים 16:12, ת׳ צדיקים 29:27a, ת׳ כסילים 13:19, ת׳ רָשָׁע 29:27b, ת׳ לְאָדָם 24:9. to God and his people: ת׳ of sacrifice of wicked Pr 21:27 (cf. 15:8), his prayers 28:9 cf. Is 1:13 (ת׳ לְ), prob. also Je 6:15 = 8:12 (of various kinds of wickedness); unchastity Lv 18:22; c. עשׂה 20:13 (H) Ez 22:11; 33:26; cf. תועבות Lv 18:26, 27, 29 (cf.v 30; H), also Pr 26:25; ת׳ י׳ Dt 25:16 Pr 3:32 + 10 times Pr., cf. 6:16.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 76 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: abominations (50); abomination (10); \[is\] (the) abomination (9).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.3/#tree)

לֹ֥א תֹאכַ֖ל כָּל־תּוֹעֵבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.eat any disgusting.thing

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

[Deuteronomy 32:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.16/#tree)

יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* they made.him.jealous by strange.\[gods\] by abominations they provoked.him.to.anger

*JPS 1917:* They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8441/): 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).