# תּוֹעֵבַה (toevah)

Israeli respelling: to-e-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8441. 112 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol

King James renderings: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/toevah-h8441

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 43:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 E…
- [Genesis 46:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 dwe…
- [Exodus 8:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sacrific…
- [Leviticus 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/22) — Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- [Leviticus 18:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 a…
- [Leviticus 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 y…
- [Leviticus 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; th…
- [Deuteronomy 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, l…
- [Deuteronomy 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 s…
- [Deuteronomy 12:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Deuteronomy 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/3) — Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- [Deuteronomy 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 abominati…
- [Deuteronomy 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 abominat…
- [Deuteronomy 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Go…
- [Deuteronomy 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 23:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ab…
- [Deuteronomy 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [Deuteronomy 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 32:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/16) — They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
- [1 Kings 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/24) — And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the…
- [2 Kings 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/16/3) — But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heath…
- [2 Kings 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/2) — And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children…
- [2 Kings 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/11) — Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him,…
- [2 Kings 23:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/13) — And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel h…
- [2 Chronicles 28:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/3) — Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen who…
- [2 Chronicles 33:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/2) — But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the chil…
- [2 Chronicles 34:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/33) — And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present…
- [2 Chronicles 36:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/8) — Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the…
- [2 Chronicles 36:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/14) — Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the h…
- [Ezra 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/1) — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated…
- [Ezra 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/11) — Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filth…
- [Ezra 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/14) — Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till…
- [Psalms 88:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/8) — Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
- [Proverbs 3:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/32) — For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
- [Proverbs 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/16) — These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
- [Proverbs 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/7) — For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
- [Proverbs 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/1) — A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- [Proverbs 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/20) — They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
- [Proverbs 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/22) — Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
- [Proverbs 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/19) — The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
- [Proverbs 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/8) — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- [Proverbs 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/9) — The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
- [Proverbs 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/26) — The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
- [Proverbs 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/5) — Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
- [Proverbs 16:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/12) — It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
- [Proverbs 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/15) — He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
- [Proverbs 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/10) — Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
- [Proverbs 20:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/23) — Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
- [Proverbs 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/27) — The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
- [Proverbs 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/9) — The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
- [Proverbs 26:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/25) — When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
- [Proverbs 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/9) — He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
- [Proverbs 29:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/27) — An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
- [Isaiah 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/13) — Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;…
- [Isaiah 41:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/24) — Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- [Isaiah 44:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/19) — And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I h…
- [Jeremiah 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/7) — And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and…
- [Jeremiah 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/15) — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fa…
- [Jeremiah 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/10) — And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
- [Jeremiah 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/12) — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fa…
- [Jeremiah 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/18) — And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with…
- [Jeremiah 32:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/35) — And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass throu…
- [Jeremiah 44:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/4) — Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
- [Jeremiah 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/22) — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefo…
- [Ezekiel 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/9) — And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
- [Ezekiel 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/11) — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine…
- [Ezekiel 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/9) — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whor…
- [Ezekiel 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/11) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel…
- [Ezekiel 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/3) — Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon th…
- [Ezekiel 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/4) — And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in t…
- [Ezekiel 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/8) — Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will r…
- [Ezekiel 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/9) — And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the…
- [Ezekiel 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/20) — As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things ther…
- [Ezekiel 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/6) — He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, tha…
- [Ezekiel 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/9) — And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
- [Ezekiel 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/13) — He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
- [Ezekiel 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/15) — Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
- [Ezekiel 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/17) — Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which…
- [Ezekiel 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/9/4) — And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men…
- [Ezekiel 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/18) — And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
- [Ezekiel 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/21) — But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon the…
- [Ezekiel 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/16) — But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations a…
- [Ezekiel 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/6) — Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from…
- [Ezekiel 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/2) — Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
- [Ezekiel 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/22) — And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast pol…
- [Ezekiel 16:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/36) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and wit…
- [Ezekiel 16:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/43) — Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense t…
- [Ezekiel 16:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/47) — Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted…
- [Ezekiel 16:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/50) — And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
- [Ezekiel 16:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/51) — Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters…
- [Ezekiel 16:58](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/58) — Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
- [Ezekiel 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/12) — Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath c…
- [Ezekiel 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/13) — Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall…
- [Ezekiel 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/24) — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the w…
- [Ezekiel 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/4) — Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
- [Ezekiel 22:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/2) — Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
- [Ezekiel 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/11) — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath…
- [Ezekiel 23:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/36) — The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
- [Ezekiel 33:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/26) — Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
- [Ezekiel 33:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/29) — Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committe…
- [Ezekiel 36:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/31) — Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniqui…
- [Ezekiel 43:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/8) — In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled…
- [Ezekiel 44:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/6) — And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all…
- [Ezekiel 44:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/7) — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute…
- [Ezekiel 44:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/13) — And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy pla…
- [Malachi 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/11) — Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LOR…