shakats · detest, make detestable

What it means

shakats (שָׁקַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “detest, make detestable”.

Treat as detestable, reject with disgust; make oneself 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 loathe something; make oneself loathsome.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• You shall utterly detest it ×2
• you shall hold detestable ×2
• detested ×1
• make detestable ×1
• make yourselves detestable ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×2
• Psalms×1

• Leviticus 11:11

  They shall be a detestable thing for you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall hold detestable.

• Leviticus 11:13

  And these you shall hold detestable among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are a detestable thing: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the sea eagle,

• Leviticus 11:43

  Do not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and do not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean by them.

• Leviticus 20:25

  So you shall separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

• 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.

• Psalms 22:24

  For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him; and when he cried for help to him, he heard.

And 1 more times.