King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H6973
Transliteration: quts
Phonetic Spelling: (koots)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
Meaning: to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
Word Summary
quts: to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
Original Word: קוּץTransliteration: quts
Phonetic Spelling: (koots)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
Meaning: to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
Strong's Concordance
abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary A primitive root (identical with quwts through the idea of severing oneself from (compare quwt)); to be (causatively, make) disgusted or anxious -- abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary.
see HEBREW quwts
see HEBREW quwt
Brown-Driver-Briggs
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 Numbers 21:5; 1singular קַ֫צְתִּי Genesis 27:46; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיָּ֫קָץ Numbers 22:3; 1 Kings 11:25 (but see below); 2 masculine singular jussive תָּקֹץ Proverbs 3:11; 1singular וָאָקֻץ Leviticus 20:23; 3masculine plural וַיָּקֻצוּ Exodus 1:12; Participle קָץ Isaiah 7:16; —
1 feel a loathing at, abhor, with ב of thing Numbers 21:5 (JE), Genesis 27:46 (P), Proverbs 3:11 ("" מָאַס); with ב person Leviticus 20:23 (H; subject ׳י); so 1 Kings 11:25, but Kit (after ᵑ6, compare ᵐ5) proposes וַ֫יָּצֶק (√ צוק
Hiph`il distress).
2 feel a sickening dread, with מִמְּנֵי person Exodus 1:12 (J), Numbers 22:3 (E), Isaiah 7:16.
Hiph`il Imperfect1plural suffix נְקִיצֶנָּה Isaiah 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).