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# abominable

«abominable» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **very bad, hateful or extremely unpleasant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (abominable, more abominable, most abominable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Abominable means very bad, hateful or extremely unpleasant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#m1)

2) (informal) Abominable can mean very poor or disagreeable, as in «abominable weather». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It describes things God forbids, such as forbidden foods or the cruel practices of the nations of Canaan. Interpretation: Tradition treats these as things that make a person or the land spiritually unfit, which is why Israel is told to keep away from them. In the primary lessons: a wicked enchantress, a cruel act or a bad world seen by a character who is disgusted by it

### examples

- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x1)
- Therefore shall ye keep My charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.18.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x2)
- How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water! (Writings JOB.15.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x3)
- But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab. (Writings 1CH.21.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x4)
- Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? (Prophets MIC.6.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x5)
- The witch's trick was abominable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x6)
- It was abominable of him to doubt her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x7)
- The weather today is abominable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x8)
- The beetle called the world an abominable place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x9)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.404/)
- [Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.91/)
- [How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.384/)
- [But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.757/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abominable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.