Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
abomination
Usage: detestable thing or idol, abominable thing, abomination, idol, detested thing
Shiqquts means “disgusting” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8251 שִׁקּוּץ שִׁקּוּץ (shiqquwts) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shiqquwts (shik-koots') (or shiqquts {shik-koots'}) n-m. 1. disgusting, i.e. filthy 2. (especially) idolatrous It has 26 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include idols, abominable, and idol. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shiqquwts (shik-koots') (or shiqquts {shik-koots'}) n-m. 1. disgusting, i.e. filthy 2. (especially) idolatrous 3. (concretely) an idol [from H8262] KJV: abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing). Root(s): H8262
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abomination
Usage: detestable thing or idol, abominable thing, abomination, idol, detested thing
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shiqquwts, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8251.
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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 builded 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.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
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Shiqquts (Strong's H8251) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "disgusting". shiqquwts (shik-koots') (or shiqquts {shik-koots'}) n-m. 1. disgusting, i.e. filthy 2. (especially) idolatrous
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H8251 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8251 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as idols, abominable, and idol. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.