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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 1 / 3 (Gen 43:32–Pro 16:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:32 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who ate with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - That ye shall say, The occupation of thy servants hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - Therefore shall ye keep my ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves in them; I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - If a man also shall lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou shouldst be snared in it: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou shouldst be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - Thou shalt not do so to the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14 - Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it is truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3 - Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - Thou shalt not sacrifice to the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, in which is blemish, or any evil favoredness: for that is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - And it shall be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:12 - For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18 - That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would ye sin against the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - Her former husband who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the artificer, and putteth it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer, and say Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 - They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:24 - And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3 - But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even 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 Box 2Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:3 - Moreover, he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:2 - But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel, to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - Moreover, all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32 - For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - These six things doth the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7 - For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20 - They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22 - Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:8 - The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9 - The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD; but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:5 - Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

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