H8441: תּוֹעֵבַה
tôwʻêbah · pronounced to-ay-baw' · “abomination”
Definition
properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV translates it as: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Word origin: or תֹּעֵבַה; feminine active participle of H8581 (תַּעָב);
Extended definition
1a) in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages)
1b) in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8441 is translated
- abominations ×22
- your ×16
- their ×13
- is the abomination of ×10
- is an abomination ×8
- abomination ×8
- the abominations of ×8
- are the abomination of ×8
- an abomination ×7
- the abomination of ×5
- is an abomination of ×5
- its ×3
Bible verses with H8441 (tôwʻêbah)
Tôwʻêbah appears in 112 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 43:32
And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
- Genesis 46:34
That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
- Exodus 8:26
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
- Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- Leviticus 18:26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
- Leviticus 18:27
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
- Leviticus 18:29
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Leviticus 18:30
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Deuteronomy 7:25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 7:26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
- Deuteronomy 12:31
Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 13:14
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
- Deuteronomy 14:3
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- Deuteronomy 17:1
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 17:4
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
- Deuteronomy 18:9
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
- Deuteronomy 18:12
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
- Deuteronomy 20:18
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 22:5
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 23:18
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 24:4
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 25:16
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
All 112 references
- 1 Kings 14:24
- 2 Kings 16:3
- 2 Kings 21:2
- 2 Kings 21:11
- 2 Kings 23:13
- 2 Chronicles 28:3
- 2 Chronicles 33:2
- 2 Chronicles 34:33
- 2 Chronicles 36:8
- 2 Chronicles 36:14
- Ezra 9:1
- Ezra 9:11
- Ezra 9:14
- Psalms 88:8
- Proverbs 3:32
- Proverbs 6:16
- Proverbs 8:7
- Proverbs 11:1
- Proverbs 11:20
- Proverbs 12:22
- Proverbs 13:19
- Proverbs 15:8
- Proverbs 15:9
- Proverbs 15:26
- Proverbs 16:5
- Proverbs 16:12
- Proverbs 17:15
- Proverbs 20:10
- Proverbs 20:23
- Proverbs 21:27
- Proverbs 24:9
- Proverbs 26:25
- Proverbs 28:9
- Proverbs 29:27
- Isaiah 1:13
- Isaiah 41:24
- Isaiah 44:19
- Jeremiah 2:7
- Jeremiah 6:15
- Jeremiah 7:10
- Jeremiah 8:12
- Jeremiah 16:18
- Jeremiah 32:35
- Jeremiah 44:4
- Jeremiah 44:22
- Ezekiel 5:9
- Ezekiel 5:11
- Ezekiel 6:9
- Ezekiel 6:11
- Ezekiel 7:3
- Ezekiel 7:4
- Ezekiel 7:8
- Ezekiel 7:9
- Ezekiel 7:20
- Ezekiel 8:6
- Ezekiel 8:9
- Ezekiel 8:13
- Ezekiel 8:15
- Ezekiel 8:17
- Ezekiel 9:4
- Ezekiel 11:18
- Ezekiel 11:21
- Ezekiel 12:16
- Ezekiel 14:6
- Ezekiel 16:2
- Ezekiel 16:22
- Ezekiel 16:36
- Ezekiel 16:43
- Ezekiel 16:47
- Ezekiel 16:50
- Ezekiel 16:51
- Ezekiel 16:58
- Ezekiel 18:12
- Ezekiel 18:13
- Ezekiel 18:24
- Ezekiel 20:4
- Ezekiel 22:2
- Ezekiel 22:11
- Ezekiel 23:36
- Ezekiel 33:26
- Ezekiel 33:29
- Ezekiel 36:31
- Ezekiel 43:8
- Ezekiel 44:6
- Ezekiel 44:7
- Ezekiel 44:13
- Malachi 2:11