Lexical Summary sheqets: detestation, detestable thing Original Word: שֶׁקֶץTransliteration: sheqets Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-kets) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: detestation, detestable thing Meaning: detestation, detestable thing Strong's Concordance abomination From shaqats; filth, i.e. (figuratively and specifically) an idolatrous object -- abominable(-tion). see HEBREW shaqats Brown-Driver-Briggs H8263. sheqets שֶׁ֫קֶץ noun masculineLeviticus 7:21 detestation, detestable thing; — ׳שׁ of the ceremonially unclean. 7:21; creatures forbidden as food: water animals without fins or scales 11:10-11, 12, birds of prey, etc., 11:13, winged creeping things 11:20; 11:23, creeping vermin 11:41; 11:42 (all P), compare Isaiah 66:17 (+ הָעַכְבָּר הַחֲזִיר, בְּשַׂר); see RSSemitic i. 275, 2nd ed. 293; K 309 f., 2nd ed. 311 f. — Ezekiel 8:10 read probably שִׁקּוּצִים, see שִׁקּוּץ. |