תַּעָב taʻâb — to loathe, i.e. (morally) detest
Translated in the KJV as abhor, (be, commit more, do) abominable, × utterly.
a primitive root; to loathe, i.e. (morally) detest.
taʻâb in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 2Infinitive absolute 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Cohortative 1
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.
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 1
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
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 ›