שָׁקַץ shâqats — to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute
Translated in the KJV as abhor, make abominable, have in abomination, detest, × utterly.
a primitive root; to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute.
shâqats in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Jussive 1Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1
They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›