taav · abhor, detest

What it means

taav (תַּעָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “abhor, detest”.

Abhor: reject something with disgust; also to act in a way that is detestable.

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. To reject something in disgust, or be rejected so.
2. To do detestable things.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• abhor ×10
• abominable ×4
• abhorred ×3
• He acted very abominably ×1
• abhors ×1
• like a loathed ×1
• was abhorrent ×1
• you acted more abominably ×1

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 7:26

  And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a thing devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is a thing devoted to destruction.

• Deuteronomy 23:7

  You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a resident alien in his land.

• 1 Kings 21:26

  He acted very abominably in going after idols, according to all that the Amorite had done, whom YHWH dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:6

  But Levi and Benjamin he did not count among them, for the word of the king was abhorrent to Joab.

• Job 9:31

  then you would plunge me into the pit, and my clothes would abhor me.

• Job 15:16

  how much less one abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water.

• Job 19:19

  All the men of my intimate counsel abhor me, and these whom I loved have turned against me.

• Job 30:10

  They abhor me, they keep far from me, and from my face they do not hold back spit.

• Psalms 5:6

  You destroy those who speak lies; the man of blood and deceit YHWH abhors.

• Psalms 14:1

  For the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have become corrupt, they have made abominable their deeds; there is no one who does good.

• Psalms 53:1

  For the director. On Mahalat. A maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have become corrupt and have done abominable injustice; there is no one who does good.

• Psalms 106:40

  And the anger of YHWH burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.

• Psalms 107:18

  All food their soul abhorred, and they drew near to the gates of death.

• Psalms 119:163

  Lying I hate and abhor; your instruction I love.

• Isaiah 14:19

  but you have been cast out away from your grave like a loathed shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

• Isaiah 49:7

  Thus says YHWH, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the one despised in soul, to the one abhorred by the nation, to the slave of rulers: “Kings will see and rise up, princes, and they will bow down, because of YHWH, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

• Ezekiel 16:25

  At the head of every road you built your lofty place, and made your beauty abominable, and spread your legs to everyone passing by, and multiplied your prostitutions.

• Ezekiel 16:52

  You also, bear your disgrace, you who arbitrated for your sisters; through your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more righteous than you. So you also, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, in making your sisters appear righteous.

• Amos 5:10

  They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and the one who speaks with integrity they abhor.

• Micah 3:9

  Hear this, please, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and twist all that is upright,

And 2 more times.