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Lexicon :: Strong's H8441 - tôʿēḇâ

Aa
תּוֹעֵבָה
Transliteration
tôʿēḇâ
Pronunciation
to-ay-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Act part of תָּעַב (H8581)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2530a

Strong’s Definitions

תּוֹעֵבַה tôwʻêbah, to-ay-baw'; or תֹּעֵבַה tôʻêbah; feminine active participle of H8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol:—abominable (custom, thing), abomination.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x

The KJV translates Strong's H8441 in the following manner: abomination (113x), abominable thing (2x), abominable (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x
The KJV translates Strong's H8441 in the following manner: abomination (113x), abominable thing (2x), abominable (2x).

  1. a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable

    1. in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages)

    2. in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תּוֹעֵבַה tôwʻêbah, to-ay-baw'; or תֹּעֵבַה tôʻêbah; feminine active participle of H8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol:—abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
STRONGS H8441: Abbreviations
תּוֺעֵבָה 117 noun feminine abomination; — absolute ת׳ Genesis 43:32 + 21 times; תֹּעֵבָה Jeremiah 44:4; construct תּוֺעֲבַת Genesis 46:34 +; plural תּוֺעֵבוֺת Ezekiel 8:6 +; construct תּוֺעֲבוֺת Ezekiel 6:11 +, etc.; suffix תֹּעֲבֹתָיוֺ 2 Chronicles 36:8, etc.; —
1. ritual sense:
a. Israel's sacrifices, מִצְרַיִם ת׳ (genitive object) Exodus 8:22 (twice in verse) (E), compare Genesis 46:34 (J); למצרים ת׳ Genesis 43:32 (J); לְ ת׳ of physical repugnance Psalm 88:9.
b. to God and his people: ת׳ of unclean food Deuteronomy 14:3; worshipper of idols Isaiah 41:24, compare Jeremiah 2:7; various objectionable acts: לפני י׳ ת׳ Deuteronomy 24:4; י׳ ת׳ Deuteronomy 7:25 (חֵרֶם, compare Deuteronomy 7:26), Deuteronomy 17:1; Deuteronomy 18:12; Deuteronomy 22:5; Deuteronomy 23:19; Deuteronomy 27:15; offering of children (עשׂה) Deuteronomy 12:31, compare Jeremiah 32:35, also plural 2 Kings 16:3 2 Chronicles 28:3; Deuteronomy 18:9, 12 (+ witchcraft); idolatrous practices (sometimes with other illegal acts) עשׂה (כ)ת׳ Deuteronomy 13:15; Deuteronomy 17:4; Ezekiel 16:50; Ezekiel 18:12; Malachi 2:11 (intermarriage with idolaters), compare Jeremiah 44:4; usually with plural noun Deuteronomy 20:18; 1 Kings 14:24; 2 Kings 21:2, 11; 2 Chronicles 33:2; 36:8; Jeremiah 7:10; Jeremiah 44:22; Ezekiel 8:6 + 12 times Ezekiel; compare תועבות 2 Chronicles 36:14; Ezra 9:1, 11, 14; Ezekiel 5:9 + 18 times Ezekiel; of idols Deuteronomy 32:16; (תועבה) 2 Kings 23:13; Isaiah 44:19 (compare Deuteronomy 27:15); idolatrous objects 2 Chronicles 34:33; || שׁקּוצים Jeremiah 16:18 (RJE) Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 11:18, 21, (צַלְמֵי ת׳) Ezekiel 7:20; || גלולים Ezekiel 14:6, compare Ezekiel 6:9; גִּלּוּלֵי ת׳ Ezekiel 16:36.
2. ethical sense:
a. with L object of man, שְׂפָתַי ת׳ Proverbs 8:7, מלכים ת׳ Proverbs 16:12, צדיקים ת׳ Proverbs 29:27a, כסילים ת׳ Proverbs 13:19, רָשָׁע ת׳ Proverbs 29:27b, לְאָדָם ת׳ Proverbs 24:9.
b. to God and his people: ת׳ of sacrifice of wicked Proverbs 21:27 (compare Proverbs 15:8), his prayers Proverbs 28:9 compare Isaiah 1:13 (לְ ת׳), probably also Jeremiah 6:15 = Jeremiah 8:12 (of various kinds of wickedness); unchastity Leviticus 18:22; with עשׂה Leviticus 20:13 (H) Ezekiel 22:11; Ezekiel 33:26; compare תועבות Leviticus 18:26, 27, 29 (compare Leviticus 18:30; H), also Proverbs 26:25; י׳ ת׳ Deuteronomy 25:16; Proverbs 3:32 + 10 times Proverbs, compare Proverbs 6:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

43:32; 43:32; 46:34; 46:34

Exodus

8:22

Leviticus

18:22; 18:26; 18:27; 18:29; 18:30; 20:13

Deuteronomy

7:25; 7:26; 12:31; 13:15; 14:3; 17:1; 17:4; 18:9; 18:12; 18:12; 20:18; 22:5; 23:19; 24:4; 25:16; 27:15; 27:15; 32:16

1 Kings

14:24

2 Kings

16:3; 21:2; 21:11; 23:13

2 Chronicles

28:3; 33:2; 34:33; 36:8; 36:8; 36:14

Ezra

9:1; 9:11; 9:14

Psalms

88:9

Proverbs

3:32; 6:16; 8:7; 13:19; 15:8; 16:12; 21:27; 24:9; 26:25; 28:9; 29:27; 29:27

Isaiah

1:13; 41:24; 44:19

Jeremiah

2:7; 6:15; 7:10; 8:12; 16:18; 32:35; 44:4; 44:4; 44:22

Ezekiel

5:9; 5:11; 6:9; 6:11; 7:20; 8:6; 8:6; 11:18; 11:21; 14:6; 16:36; 16:50; 18:12; 22:11; 33:26

Malachi

2:11

H8441

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8441 matches the Hebrew תּוֹעֵבָה (tôʿēḇâ),
which occurs 118 times in 112 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 43:32–Pro 16:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:32 - And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14 - Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3 - No disgusting thing may be your food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:12 - For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18 - So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 - The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:24 - And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3 - But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:3 - More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the disgusting things he did, and all there is to be said against him, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32 - For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7 - For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20 - The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22 - False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:8 - The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9 - The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:5 - Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

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