---
title: קוּץ — feel a loathing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קוּץ (6973), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: feel a loathing. BDB 1906: vb. feel loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread Hiph. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6973.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511.md)‎ / קוּץ‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# קוּץ

<!-- .meta -->
«קוּץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **feel a loathing** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 6973 · **BDB:** קוּץ

### Glosses

I.loathe (1); I.loathed (1); \[are\].feeling.dread (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

feel a loathing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6973/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. feel loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread Hiph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6973/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feel a loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread (‖ √ of קוט; 𝔗 קוּץ id.; for connex. of meanings cf. Aramaic קְנַט loathe, ܩܢܰܛ fear);— Pf. 3 fs. קָ֫צָה Nu 21:5; 1 s. קַ֫צְתִּי Gn 27:46; Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּ֫קָץ Nu 22:3; 1 K 11:25 (but v. infr.); 2 ms. juss. תָּקֹץ Pr 3:11; 1 s. וָאָקֻץ Lv 20:23; 3 mpl. וַיָּקֻצוּ Ex 1:12; Pt. קָץ Is 7:16;— feel a loathing at, abhor, c. ב rei Nu 21:5 (JE), Gn 27:46 (P), Pr 3:11 (‖ מָאַס); c. ב pers. Lv 20:23 (H; subj. י׳); so 1 K 11:25, but Kit (after 𝔖, cf. 𝔊) proposes וַיָּ֫צֶק (√ צוק Hiph. distress). feel a sickening dread, c. מִפְּנֵי pers. Ex 1:12 (J), Nu 22:3 (E), Is 7:16. Impf. 1 pl. sf. נְקִיצֶנָּה Is 7:6 (sf. of Judah) let us cause her sickening dread, but weak, read נְצִיקֶנָּה (√ צוק) Thes Che Du Gr Marti.—Other Hiph. forms v. קיץ.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קוּץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6973/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Proverbs 3:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.11/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
מוּסַ֣ר יְ֭הוָה בְּנִ֣י אַל־תִּמְאָ֑ס וְאַל־תָּ֝קֹ֗ץ בְּתוֹכַחְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.discipline of.Yahweh my.son my do.not reject and do.not loath (in) rebuke his

*JPS 1917:* My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither spurn thou His correction;

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Exodus 1:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.12/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וְכַאֲשֶׁר֙ יְעַנּ֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ כֵּ֥ן יִרְבֶּ֖ה וְכֵ֣ן יִפְרֹ֑ץ וַיָּקֻ֕צוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and just as people.afflicted it so it.increased and so it.spread and people.felt.dread of the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [קוּץ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6972.md)
- next →: [קוֹץ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6975.md)
- ↑ back to [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511.md)