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קוּץ

qûwts · H6973 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to abhor, to detest, to resent, to reject, to oppose, to be hostile

    Process by which humans and deities experience an emotion of strong disapproval and rejection of a person or situation

    Examples

    Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

    Leviticus 20:23 ‘Furthermore, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I am going to drive out before you, because they did all these things; therefore I have felt disgust for them.

    Numbers 21:5 So the people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we are disgusted with this miserable food.”

  2. to fear, to dread

    Process by which human experience an emotion of fear regarding someone who is more powerful or numerous

    Examples

    Exodus 1:12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel.

    Numbers 22:3 So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

    Isaiah 7:16 “For before the boy knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

8 occurrences in 7 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 6 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
נָאַר nâʼar · H5010 · to reject
The target lexeme has a much broader emotional and distress range (‘to abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary’), while נָאַר has the narrower gloss ‘to abhor, make void.’ In the shared sense of abhorring or loathing, the two are near-synonyms.
קוּט qûwṭ · H6962 · to loathe, to be disgusted with
The target lexeme and קוּט both occupy the emotional territory of revulsion — to loathe, abhor, or be grieved and distressed — functioning as near-synonyms describing similar affective states.
In the other Testament 1 word
προσοχθίζω prosochthízō · G4360 · to be provoked, to be angry
Greek προσοχθίζω specifically denotes feeling indignant or being provoked to anger at something, while Hebrew קוּץ encompasses a broader semantic range including abhorrence, distress, grief, loathing, and weariness—the overlap centers on the emotional response of strong negative reaction, with the Greek term narrowed to the indignation/anger register.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Hate002001002014
The word means to loathe or be disgusted, illustrated by Rebekah being weary of life over Esau's Hittite wives (Genesis 27:46) and Israel following practices the LORD had come to despise (Leviticus 20:23).
Afraid002001002001
The same word can mean dread, illustrated by the Egyptians dreading the increasing Israelites (Exodus 1:12) and Moab's dread of Israel's numbers (Numbers 22:3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6973. quts I. [קוּץ] verb feel a loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread (|| √of קוט; קוּץ…
H6973. quts
I. [קוּץ] verb feel a loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread (|| √of קוט; קוּץ ᵑ7 id.; for connection of meanings compare Aramaic קְנַט loathe, fear); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular קָ֫צָה Num 21:5; Num 21:1singular קַ֫צְתִּי Gen 27:46; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיָּ֫קָץ Num 22:3; 1Ki 11:25 (but see below); 2 masculine singular jussive תָּקֹץ Pro 3:11; Pro 3:1singular וָאָקֻץ Lev 20:23; Lev 20:3masculine plural וַיָּקֻצוּ Exo 1:12; Participle קָץ Isa 7:16; —
1 feel a loathing at, abhor, with ב of thing Num 21:5 (JE), Gen 27:46 (P), Pro 3:11 (|| מָאַס); with ב person Lev 20:23 (H; subject ׳י); so 1Ki 11:25, but Kit (after ᵑ6, compare ᵐ5) proposes וַ֫יָּצֶק (√ צוק
Hiph`il distress).
2 feel a sickening dread, with מִמְּנֵי person Exo 1:12 (J), Num 22:3 (E), Isa 7:16.
Hiph`il Imperfect1plural suffix נְקִיצֶנָּה Isa 7:6 (suffix of Judah) let us cause her sickening dread, but weak, read נְצִיקֶנָּה (√ צוק) Thes Che Du Gr Marti. — Other
Hiph`il forms see קיץ.
II. קוץ (√ of following; compare perhaps Late Hebrew, קוּץ ᵑ7 cut off; Late Hebrew קוֺץ = Biblical Hebrew).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Afraid3 occurrencesHate5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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