Strong's #6973: quwts (pronounced koots)

a primitive root (identical with 6972 through the idea of severing oneself from (compare 6962)); to be (causatively, make) disgusted or anxious:--abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qûts

1) to be grieved, loathe, abhor, feel a loathing or abhorrence or sickening dread

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to feel a loathing at, abhor

1a2) to feel a sickening dread

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to cause sickening dread

1b2) to cause loathing

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [identical with H6972 through the idea of severing oneself from (compare H6962)]

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Genesis 27:46: "said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters"
Exodus 1:12: "them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children"
Leviticus 20:23: "they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred"
Numbers 21:5: "bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread."
Numbers 22:3: "the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because"
1 Kings 11:25: "the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria."
Proverbs 3:11: "the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:"
Isaiah 7:16: "the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings."