kuts · loathe, be weary of

What it means

kuts (קוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “loathe, be weary of”.

Be sick of, loathe; dread, be unable to bear any more.

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 annoyance or revulsion that one can no longer bear it.
2. To be greatly afraid of someone.
3. To fill others with fear so that they give in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dread ×2
• I am weary ×1
• I loathed ×1
• dreaded ×1
• grow weary ×1
• he loathed ×1
• loathes ×1
• terrify it ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is life to me?”

• Exodus 1:12

  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, and the Egyptians came to dread the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 20:23

  And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I loathed them.

• Numbers 21:5

  And the people spoke against Elohim and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and there is no water, and our soul loathes this worthless food.”

• Numbers 22:3

  And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab dreaded the sons of Israel.

• 1 Kings 11:25

  And he was an opponent to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the evil that Hadad did; and he loathed Israel and reigned over Aram.

• Proverbs 3:11

  The correction of YHWH, my son, do not reject, and do not grow weary of his reproof;

• Isaiah 7:6

  “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and break into it for ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, the son of Tabeel,”

• Isaiah 7:16

  For before the boy knows how to reject evil and choose good, the ground will be abandoned whose two kings you dread.