Midvash

תַּעָבtaʻâb

Niph`al: be abhorred (1 Chronicles 21:6; Isaiah 14:19; Job 15:16)

Pronunciation: taw-ab' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8581

Meanings

1. ritual sense (Isaiah 14:19; Job 15:16; Psalms 14:3)

2. ethically (1 Chronicles 21:6)

Pi`el

1. regard as an abomination, abhor

a. ritual sense (Psalms 106:40; Deuteronomy 7:26; Deuteronomy 23:8)

b. ethically (Psalms 5:7; Amos 6:8; Micah 3:9)

c. physically (Psalms 107:18)

2. cause to be an abomination (Ezekiel 16:25; Job 9:31; Isaiah 49:7)

Hiph`il: make abominable, do abominably (Ezekiel 16:52; Psalms 14:1; Psalms 53:2)

1. ritual sense (Ezekiel 16:52; 1 Kings 21:26)

2. ethically (Psalms 14:1; Psalms 53:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 7:26 Do not bring any detestable objects into your home, for then you will be destroyed, just like them. You must utterly detest such things, for they are set apart for destruction.
  • Deuteronomy 23:7 “Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians, because the Edomites are your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.
  • 1 Kings 21:26 His worst outrage was worshiping idols just as the Amorites had done—the people whom the Lord had driven out from the land ahead of the Israelites.)
  • 1 Chronicles 21:6 But Joab did not include the tribes of Levi and Benjamin in the census because he was so distressed at what the king had made him do.
  • Job 9:31 you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me.
  • Job 15:16 How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
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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).