shikuts · detestable thing

What it means

shikuts (שִׁקּוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “detestable thing”.

What is disgusting; said above all of idols.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is disgusting, above all idols.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• detestable things ×21
• detestable thing ×7

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×8
• Daniel×3
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• Deuteronomy 29:17

  and you saw their detestable things and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  And Solomon went after Astarte, the god of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab, on the mountain that is facing Jerusalem, and for Molech, the detestable thing of the sons of Ammon.

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The high places that were facing Jerusalem, which were to the right of the Mount of Destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Astarte, the detestable thing of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king made unclean.

• 2 Kings 23:24

  Moreover, those who call up the dead and the spiritists, the teraphim, the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah purged, in order to confirm the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words and the prophecy, Oded the prophet, he grew strong and removed the detestable things from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of YHWH that was in front of the portico of YHWH.

• Isaiah 66:3

  One who slaughters the ox, one who strikes a man; one who sacrifices the lamb, one who breaks the neck of a dog; one who presents an offering, the blood of a pig; one who makes a memorial of frankincense, one who blesses wickedness. They too have chosen their ways, and in their detestable things their soul delights.

• Jeremiah 4:1

  “If you return, Israel, declares YHWH, to me return; and if you remove your detestable things from before me and do not wander,

• Jeremiah 7:30

  For the sons of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, declares YHWH; they have set their detestable things in the house over which my name is called, to defile it.

• Jeremiah 13:27

  Your adulteries and your neighings, the infamy of your prostitution on the hills in the field, I have seen your detestable things. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be clean; after how long still?

• Jeremiah 16:18

  And I will repay first double their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and with their abominations they have filled my inheritance.”

• Jeremiah 32:34

  And they set their detestable things in the house over which my name is called, to defile it.

• Ezekiel 5:11

  Therefore, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, I too will withdraw, and my eye will not spare, and I too will not show pity.

• Ezekiel 7:20

  And the beauty of its ornament they set for pride, and the images of their abominations, their detestable things, they made with it; therefore I have made it for them an impurity.

• Ezekiel 11:18

  And they will come there, and remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

• Ezekiel 11:21

  But as for those whose heart goes after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, their way I will lay on their head, declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 20:7

  And I said to them, Each of you, cast away the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Ezekiel 20:8

  But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me; they did not each cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said that I would pour out my fury on them to spend my anger on them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 20:30

  Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: In the way of your fathers are you defiling yourselves? And after their detestable things are you prostituting yourselves?

• Ezekiel 37:23

  And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols and with their detestable things and with all their transgressions; and I will save them from all their dwellings in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them, and they will be my people, and I will be their Elohim.

• Daniel 9:27

  And he will make strong a covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will make sacrifice and offering cease; and on the wing of detestable things will come one who makes desolate, even until the complete destruction that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

• Daniel 11:31

  And forces from him will stand up and profane the sanctuary, the stronghold, and take away the continual sacrifice, and set up the detestable thing that makes desolate.

• Daniel 12:11

  And from the time that the continual sacrifice is taken away and that the detestable thing that makes desolate is set up, there will be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

• Hosea 9:10

  Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel; like the early fruit on the fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers; they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the shame, and they became detestable things like what they loved.

• Nahum 3:6

  And I will throw on you detestable things, and dishonor you, and make you a spectacle.

• Zechariah 9:7

  And I will remove his blood from his mouth, and his detestable things from between his teeth; and he too will be left for our Elohim, and he will be like a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron like the Jebusite.

And 2 more times.