2023 Shuv Show: “Shikkoots, the Filth that Pollutes,” Christene Jackman

2023 SHUV SHOW BIBLE WORD STUDY
“Shikkoots, the Filth that Pollutes”
Christene Jackman ©3.12.2023
https://www.ChristeneJackman.com/

EXCERPT: "Welcome to the Shuv Show. I’m your host, Christene Jackman.
In a previous show, we learned about the biblical Hebrew word, toeva, often translated as: abominable, detestable.
Tonight, we’ll continue with a Bible word study of the Hebrew word, shikkoots, often translated: filth, abominable filth, detest, pollute.
So, how is shikkoots different? Primarily, it means: polluted, filthy, disgusting, often attached to an idolatrous thing. It comes from the primitive root word H8262: shaw-kats’, a verb, to be filthy, to loathe, to pollute, make abominable, to detest, etc. This root word is used only 4 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. Let’s look at them.

DEFINITIONS: H8262
שִׁקּוּץ shiqqûwts, shik-koots', polluted, filthy, disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol:—abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).
ROOT WORD: שָׁקַץ shâqats, shaw-kats'; a primitive root; to be filthy, i.e. (intensively) to loathe, pollute:—abhor, make abominable, have in abomination, detest, × utterly.

VERSES THAT USE THE ROOT WORD, SHAW-KATS’:
The first use of this primitive root word verb, shaw-kats’, is found in Vayikra/Leviticus 11. This is where God details what is to be considered food for human consumption and which things are not considered food for human consumption. The creatures not considered food, have a different purpose in God’s design, for example, to be the garbage cleaners of the earth. The “do not eat” items can actually make you ritually unclean by touching their dead corpses. Ok, the 4 Scripture usages of the root word, shaw-kats’:

[Lev 11:11, 12, 13, 43] (regarding water creatures without fins and scales: “ . . . and they shall be abhorrent [sheh'-kets (from same root, noun)] to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their dead bodies you shall detest shaw-kats’ [H8262 verb].”
12 “Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent [sheh'-kets] to you.... “
13 “These, moreover, you shall detest shaw-kats’ [H8262] among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, ... “ and the list goes on.
43 'Do not render shaw-kats’ [H8262] yourselves detestable shaw-kats’ [H8262] through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.”
The full list of clean and unclean creatures is found in Lev. 11. In light of God’s strong language, considering these shaw-kats items, it would be in our best interest to take God at His Word. Wise people strive to learn, hear, and obey. Eating Biblically kosher is part of being set apart, holy, and a fundamental item of the Terms of the Covenant, the commandments of the Ancient Covenant. Blood covenants that God cuts are eternal. Because He is eternal and ever Faithful . . . "