שֶׁקֶץ
shekets · detestable thing
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8263 · appears 11 times in the Bible
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shekets (שֶׁקֶץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “detestable thing”.
A detestable thing: what the Law commands to reject, especially as food.
How to say it
she·kets
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
- What the law says to reject, above all as food.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- detestable thing ×10
- detestable ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 7:21
And when a person touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace that belongs to YHWH, that person shall be cut off from his people.”
- Leviticus 11:10
But everything that has no fins and scales in the seas and in the streams, among all the swarming things of the waters and among all the living beings that are in the waters, they shall be a detestable thing for you.
- 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 11:12
Everything that has no fins and scales in the waters, it shall be a detestable thing for you.
- 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 11:20
Every winged insect that walks on all fours, it shall be a detestable thing for you.
- Leviticus 11:23
But every other winged insect that has four feet, it shall be a detestable thing for you.
- Leviticus 11:41
And every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 11:42
Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or even whatever has many feet, among all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are a detestable thing.
- Isaiah 66:17
“Those who consecrate themselves and purify themselves for the gardens, after one in the middle, who eat the flesh of pigs and the detestable thing and the mouse, will come to an end together, declares YHWH.
- Ezekiel 8:10
And I went in and looked, and look, every form of creeping thing and of detestable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, carved on the wall all around, all around.