1. Detestable thing, abomination — A masculine noun שֶׁקֶץ denoting something ritually or morally detestable, used primarily in Levitical dietary laws and prophetic denunciations of idolatry to mark creatures or practices as abhorrent to God. All three clusters represent the same noun in different syntactic positions: bare nominal (S143781, 8x: eng 'detestable thing', spa 'abominación/cosa detestable', hin घिनौना, arb مَكْرُوهٌ/رِجْسٍ, kor 역겨운 것이다, swa 'chukizo/kitu chenye chukizo'), conjunctive with optional article (S143782, 2x: eng 'and the detestable thing', spa 'y la abominación', hin और घृणित वस्तु, arb وَمَكْرُوهًا/وَالرِّجْسِ, kor 그리고 역겨운 것이, swa 'na machukizo'), and predicate position (S143784, 1x: eng 'detestable', spa 'detestable', hin घृणित, arb رِجْسٍ, kor 험오스러운, swa 'wa chukizo'). All are grammatical variants of one semantic sense. 11×
AR["رِجْسٍ","مَكْرُوهٌ","وَ-مَكْرُوهًا","وَالرِّجْسِ"]·ben["-এবং-ঘৃণ্য","এবং-ঘৃণ্য-জিনিস","ঘৃণ্য","ঘৃণ্য-জিনিস"]·DE["[והשקץ]","[שקץ]","detestable-Sache","und-detestable-Sache"]·EN["and-detestable-thing","and-the-detestable-thing","detestable","detestable-thing"]·FR["[והשקץ]","detestable-chose","et-detestable-chose","horreur"]·heb["ו-ה-שקץ","ו-שקץ","שקץ"]·HI["और-घिनौने","और-घृणित-वस्तु","घिनौना","घिनौने","घृणित","घृणित-जंतु","वे"]·ID["dan-kekejian","kekejian","menjijikkan"]·IT["[והשקץ]","[שקץ]","cosa-detestabile","detestabile-cosa","e-cosa-detestabile"]·jav["Lan-jijik","barang-jijik","ingkang-njijikaken","jijik","lan-ingkang-nggegirisi"]·KO["그리고-그-역겨운-것과","그리고-역겨운-것이","역겨운-것에","역겨운-것이다","험오스러운"]·PT["E-abominação","abominação","coisa-detestavel","e-a-abominação"]·RU["и-hа-мерзость","и-мерзостью","мерзости","мерзость"]·ES["Y-abominación","abominación","cosa-detestable","detestable","y-la-abominación"]·SW["Na-chukizo","chukizo","kitu-chenye-chukizo","na-machukizo","wa-chukizo"]·TR["iğrenç","iğrenç-şey","tiksintilik","ve-iyrenci","ve-iğrenç"]·urd["اور-مکروہ","مکروہ","گھناؤنی"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שֶׁ֫קֶץ n.m. Lv 7:21 detestation, detestable thing;—שׁ׳ of the ceremonially unclean Lv 7:21; creatures forbidden as food: water animals without fins or scales 11:10, 11, 12, birds of prey, etc., v 13, winged creeping things v 20, 23, creeping vermin v 41, 42 (all P), cf. Is 66:17 (+ בְּשַׂר הַחֲזִיר, הָעַכְבָּר); v. RSSem. i. 275, 2nd ed. 293; K 309 f., 2nd ed. 311 f.—Ez 8:10 read prob. שִׁקּוּצִים, v. שִׁקּוּץ.