kut · loathe

What it means

kut (קוּט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “loathe”.

To feel loathing for someone; to be sick of him.

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 feel such strong revulsion that one can no longer bear something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• loathe ×3
• I felt loathing ×1
• loathed them ×1
• you will feel disgust ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×3
• Ezekiel×3

• Psalms 95:10

  For forty years I felt loathing for a generation, and I said, “A people who go astray in heart are they, and they have not known my ways.”

• Psalms 119:158

  I saw traitors and loathed them, because your saying they have not kept.

• Psalms 139:21

  Do I not hate those who hate you, YHWH, and loathe those who rise up against you?

• Ezekiel 6:9

  And those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, when I was broken with their heart that prostitutes itself, which turned away from me, and with their eyes that prostitute themselves after their idols; and they will loathe themselves for the evils that they did in all their abominations.

• Ezekiel 20:43

  And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you defiled yourselves, and you will feel disgust at yourselves for all your evils that you have done.

• Ezekiel 36:31

  And you will remember your evil ways and your works that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and for your abominations.