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Lexicon :: Strong's H8441 - tôʿēḇâ

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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 117 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 - And they set on bread for him alone, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians feasting with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - Ye shall say, We thy servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Gesem of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - (LXX 8:22) And Moses said, It cannot be so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians; for if we sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - And ye shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and ye shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - And ye shall keep mine ordinances, that ye may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and ye shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thine house, so [fn]shouldest thou be an accursed thing like it; thou shalt utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed [fn]to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14 - (LXX 13:15) then thou shalt enquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold, if the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3 - Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, or any evil thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - and it be told thee, and thou shalt have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:12 - For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18 - that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and so ye should sin before the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - The apparel of a man shall not be on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's dress; for every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - (LXX 23:19) Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - For every one that does this is an abomination to the Lord thy God, even every one that does injustice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 - They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:24 - And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did [fn]according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed [fn]from before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3 - And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2 - And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before him, and has led Juda also into sin by their idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the abomination of Moab, and to Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:3 - And he sacrificed to their idols in the valley of Benennom, and passed his children through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josias removed all the abominations out of the whole land which belonged to the children of Israel, and caused all that were found in Jerusalem and in Israel, to serve the Lord their God all his days: he departed not from following the Lord God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - And the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, behold, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in Ganozae: and Jechonias his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - And all the great men of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land transgressed abundantly in the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which was in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - And when these things were finished, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands in their abominations, even the Chananite, the Ethite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, and the Moserite and the Amorite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - which thou hast given us by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, into which ye go to inherit it, is a land subject to disturbance by the removal of the people of the nations for their abominations, wherewith they have filled it from one end to the other by their uncleannesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - whereas we have repeatedly broken thy commandments, and intermarried with the people of the lands: be not very angry with us to our utter destruction, so that there should be no remnant or escaping one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - (LXX 87:9) Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32 - For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7 - For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable unto him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20 - Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22 - Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:8 - The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9 - The ways of an ungodly man are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:5 - Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless.

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