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בָּחֵל

ba.chal

to loath

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Strong’s H973aVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

it loathed1

In the text

Zechariah 11:8בָּחֲלָה
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[בָּחֵל] vb. feel loathing

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.