Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8263
שֶׁקֶץ
sheqetssheh'-kets
detestation
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8263is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8263
filth, i.e. (figuratively and specifically) an idolatrous object
The King James renders it: abominable(-tion).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sheqets is rendered "detestation". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 7:21If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
Leviticus 7:21שֶׁ֣קֶץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's eleven uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a detestable thing5
- detestable thing4
- and detestable thing1
- and the detestable thing1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שֶׁ֥קֶץ6
- שֶׁ֣קֶץ2
- וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶץ1
- וְשֶׁ֖קֶץ1
- שֶׁ֔קֶץ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
Leviticus
nine uses
If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
- שֶׁ֣קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: detestable thing
But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
- שֶׁ֥קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: detestable thing
They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
- וְשֶׁ֖קֶץvesheketzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and detestable thing
Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
- שֶׁ֥קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: a detestable thing
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- שֶׁ֣קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: detestable thing
All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
- שֶׁ֥קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: a detestable thing
All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.
- שֶׁ֥קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: a detestable thing
Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.
- שֶׁ֥קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: a detestable thing
Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.
- שֶׁ֥קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: a detestable thing
Isaiah
one use
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
- וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶץvehasheketzconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the detestable thing
Ezekiel
one use
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- שֶׁ֔קֶץsheketznoun · masculine singulartagged: detestable thing
The letters
Gematria 490· 1,300 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.