Detestable, Things
Detestable, Things
de-testa-b’l, (, shikkuc; , shekec, synonymous with , toebhah, abomination, abominable thing): The translation of shikkucm in Jer 16:18; Eze 5:11; Eze 7:20; Eze 11:18, Eze 11:21; Eze 37:23; a term always applied to idol-worship or to objects connected with idolatry; often also translated abomination, as in 1Ki 11:5, 1Ki 11:7 (bis); Jer 4:1; Eze 20:7, Eze 20:8, Eze 20:30. Shekec, translated abomination, is applied in the Scriptures to that which is ceremonially unclean (Lev 7:21), creatures forbidden as food, as water animals without fins or scales in Lev 11:10-12, birds of prey and the like (Lev 11:18), winged creeping things (Lev 11:20, Lev 11:23), creeping vermin (Lev 11:41 f). Compare also Isa 66:17. By partaking of the food of the animals in question one makes himself detestable (Lev 11:43; Lev 20:25). Similarly the idolatrous appurtenances are to be held in detestation; nothing of the kind should be appropriated for private use (Deu 7:26). See ABOMINATION.