שִׁקֵּץ
sha.qats
“to detest”
Definition
to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute
a primitive root;
- (Piel) to detest, make abominable, count filthy, make detestable 1a) to detest 1b) to make detestable
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Occurrences
שִׁקֵּץ appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
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,
Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.