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שֶׁקֶץ sheqets
Hebrew word for “detestation” · Strong’s H8263 · used 11 times in 11 verses
Meaning
detestable thing or idol, an unclean thing, an abomination, detestation
How it is translated
Glosses given for sheqets in context, with how often each is used:
- detestable thing 8
- detestable things 3
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 11 (8), Leviticus 7 (1), Isaiah 66 (1), Ezekiel 8 (1)
Forms
- שׁקץ 9
- ושׁקץ 1
- והשׁקץ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sheqets more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שֶׁרֶץ sherets “swarm” 5
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 6
- כֶם khem “you” 5
- עוֹף oph “bird” 3
- סְנַפִּיר senappir “fin” 2
- שִׁקֵּץ shaqats “to detest” 2
- קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת qasqeset “scale” 2
- שָׁרַץ sharats “to swarm” 2
- בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 3
- אַרְבַּע arba “four” 3
- הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 3
- בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 2
Key verses
The verses using sheqets that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Leviticus 7:21 — Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of…
- Leviticus 11:10 — And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they…
- Leviticus 11:11 — They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
- Leviticus 11:12 — Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:13 — And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the…
- Leviticus 11:20 — All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:23 — But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:41 — And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 11:42 — Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye…
- Isaiah 66:17 — They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse,…
- Ezekiel 8:10 — So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.