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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 118 times in 112 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Pro 16:12–Eze 18:24)

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:12 - It is an abomination to kings to do evil,
for the throne is established by righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:15 - He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous
are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:10 - Unequal[fn] weights and unequal measures
are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:23 - Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD,
and false scales are not good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:27 - The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;
how much more when he brings it with evil intent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9 - The devising[fn] of folly is sin,
and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 - when he speaks graciously, believe him not,
for there are seven abominations in his heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:9 - If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer is an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:27 - An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous,
but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—
I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:24 - Behold, you are nothing,
and your work is less than nothing;
an abomination is he who chooses you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - And I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:10 - and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:12 - Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:35 - They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4 - Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:9 - And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:11 - Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.[fn] My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:3 - Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:4 - And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:8 - Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:9 - And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:20 - His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:9 - And he said to me, “Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:13 - He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:15 - Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their[fn] nose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - And the LORD said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:18 - And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:21 - But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will[fn] bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:2 - “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:50

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:50 - They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:51

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:51 - Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:58

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:58 - You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

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