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פִּגּוּל

refuse

‘refuse’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H6292 Strong's Hebrew
piggûwl Transliteration
/pig-gool'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 4 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“refuse” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun פגול (piggûwl). It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than half of its appearances fall in Leviticus. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 7:18. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
abominable
Modern gloss
refuse
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H6292 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

4
distinct verses
The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
3 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
Leviticus 7:18
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Leviticus 7:18.
Ezekiel 4:14
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Ezekiel 4:14.
#3,696
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 2 · 50%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 2 · 50%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 50%
  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 50%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Abominable 2×
  • American Standard Version: Abominable 1×, Came there abominable 1×, Is an abomination 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Abomination 1×, Is tainted 1×, Polluted broth 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Defiled 1×, Foul 1×, Is defiled 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H6292 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Abominable” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H6292 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Abominable” 1×
  • “Came there abominable” 1×
  • “Is an abomination” 1×
  • “It” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H6292 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Abomination” 1×
  • “Is tainted” 1×
  • “Polluted broth” 1×
  • “Unclean” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H6292 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Defiled” 1×
  • “Foul” 1×
  • “Is defiled” 1×
  • “Unclean things” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. foul thing, refuse
  2. unclean sacrificial flesh (only use)

Word origin

n.m. Lv 7:18 foul thing, refuse, but only as term. techn. of unclean sacrificial flesh;—it is פ׳ if eaten on third day Lv 7:18 (P), 19:7 (H); cf. בְּשַׂר פ׳ Ez 4:14 (undefined); pl. מְרַק פִּגֻּלִים Is 65:4 broth of refuse things (Kt פרק), RSSem i. 325, 2nd ed. 343 thinks of flesh with the blood; Duad loc. of mice and other unclean animals.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: from an unused root meaning to stink

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 1730a


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

פִּגּוּל

  • , v. sub פִּיגּ׳.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms H6292 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
פִּגּ֣וּל Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 7:18 1
פִּגּ֥וּל Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 19:7 1
פִּגֻּלִ֖ים Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute Isaiah 65:4 1
פִּגּֽוּל Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 4:14 1

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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