תּוֹעֵבַה toevah

Hebrew word for “abomination” · Strong’s H8441 · used 117 times in 112 verses

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Meaning

1) a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable;

How it is translated

Glosses given for toevah in context, with how often each is used:

• abominations 64
• abomination 51
• disgusting thing 2

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 16 (8), Leviticus 18 (5), Ezekiel 7 (5), Ezekiel 8 (5), Ezra 9 (3), Proverbs 15 (3), Ezekiel 18 (3), Ezekiel 44 (3), Deuteronomy 7 (2), Deuteronomy 17 (2)

Forms

• תועבת 27
• תועבה 16
• התועבות 8
• תועבות 7
• התועבת 6
• תועבתיך 5
• תועבותיך 5
• ותועבת 4
• התועבה 3
• תועבתם 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with toevah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• טָמֵא tame “to defile” 10
• גַּם gam “also” 14
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 12
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 12
• שִׁקּוּץ shiqquts “abomination” 6
• יָרַשׁ yarash “to possess” 8
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 9
• זִמָּה zimmah “wickedness” 5
• יָדַע yada “to know” 10
• רַע ra “bad” 9
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 10
• גִּלּוּל gillul “idol” 5

Key verses

The verses using toevah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 27:15 — Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret…
• 2 Chronicles 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…
• Ezra 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…
• Proverbs 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Jeremiah 44:4 — Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
• Ezekiel 5:11 — 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,…
• Ezekiel 6:9 — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which…
• Ezekiel 7:20 — 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…
• Ezekiel 9:4 — And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that…
• Ezekiel 18:24 — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth,…
• Ezekiel 36:31 — Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your…
• Ezekiel 44:7 — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,…

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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.