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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 place for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who are eating with him by themselves: for the Egyptians are unable to eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - that ye have said, Thy servants have been men of cattle from our youth, even until now, both we and our fathers, -- in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for the abomination of the Egyptians is every one feeding a flock.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - and Moses saith, 'Not right to do so, for the abomination of the Egyptians we do sacrifice to Jehovah our God; lo, we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes -- and they do not stone us!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - 'And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - and ye -- ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not any of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:29 - for any one who doth any of all these abominations -- even the persons who are doing so, have been cut off from the midst of their people;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - 'And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:25 - 'The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken it to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it is;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it is devoted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - 'Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14 - and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:3 - 'Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - 'Thou dost not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God ox or sheep in which there is a blemish -- any evil thing; for it is the abomination of Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - and it hath been declared to thee, and thou hast heard, and hast searched diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in Israel --

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - 'When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:12 - 'For the abomination of Jehovah is every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:18 - so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - 'The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow; for the abomination of Jehovah thy God are even both of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - 'Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it is before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - 'Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 - They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:24 - and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3 - and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, and also his son he hath caused to pass over into fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2 - and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - 'Because that Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations -- he hath done evil above all that the Amorites have done who are before him, and causeth also Judah to sin by his idols;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places that are on the front of Jerusalem, that are on the right of the mount of corruption, that Solomon king of Israel had built to Ashtoreth abomination of the Zidonians, and Chemosh abomination of Moab, and to Milcom abomination of the sons of Ammon, hath the king defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:3 - and himself hath made perfume in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burneth his sons with fire according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:2 - and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josiah turneth aside all the abominations out of all the lands that the sons of Israel have, and causeth every one who is found in Israel to serve, to serve Jehovah their God; all his days they turned not aside from after Jehovah, God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:8 - And the rest of the matters of Jehoiakim, and his abominations that he hath done, and that which is found against him, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, and reign doth Jehoiachin his son in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people, having multiplied to commit a trespass according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defile the house of Jehovah that He hath sanctified in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, 'The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:11 - that Thou hast commanded by the hands of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land into which ye are going to possess it, is a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it -- from mouth unto mouth -- by their uncleanness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us -- even to consumption -- till there is no remnant and escaped part?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32 - For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7 - For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20 - An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22 - An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, And an abomination to fools is: Turn 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 Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9 - An abomination to Jehovah is the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - An abomination to Jehovah are thoughts of wickedness, And pure are sayings of pleasantness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:5 - An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

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