קוּץqûwts
feel a loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread
Pronunciation: koots · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6973
Meanings
Qal
1. feel a loathing at, abhor, with ב of thing Num 21:5 (J E), Gen 27:46 (P), Prov 3:11 (|| מָאַס); with ב person Lev 20:23 (H; subject ׳ י); so 1Kgs 11:25, but Kit (after ᵑ6, compare ᵐ5) proposes וַ֫יָּצֶק (√ צוק Hiph`il distress). (Numbers 21:5; Genesis 27:46; Proverbs 3:11)
2. feel a sickening dread (Exodus 1:12; Numbers 22:3; Isaiah 7:16)
Hiph`il: but weak, read נְצִיקֶנָּה (√ צוק) (Isaiah 7:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick and tired of these local Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.”
- Exodus 1:12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became.
- Leviticus 20:23 Do not live according to the customs of the people I am driving out before you. It is because they do these shameful things that I detest them.
- Numbers 21:5 and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”
- Numbers 22:3 And when the people of Moab saw how many Israelites there were, they were terrified.
- 1 Kings 11:25 Rezon was Israel’s bitter adversary for the rest of Solomon’s reign, and he made trouble, just as Hadad did. Rezon hated Israel intensely and continued to reign in Aram.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).