STRONGS NUMBER H6973


Word Summary
quts: to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
Original Word: קוּץ
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
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 ᵑ7id.; for connection of meanings compare Aramaic קְנַטloathe, fear); —

Qal Perfect3feminine singular קָ֫צָהNumbers 21:5; 1singular קַ֫צְתִּיGenesis 27:46; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיָּ֫קָץNumbers 22:3; 1 Kings 11:25 (but see below); 2 masculine singular jussive תָּקֹץProverbs 3:11; 1singular וָאָקֻץLeviticus 20:23; 3masculine plural וַיָּקֻצוּExodus 1:12; Participle קָץIsaiah 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 נְקִיצֶנָּהIsaiah 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 ᵑ7cut off; Late Hebrew קוֺץ‎ = Biblical Hebrew).