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BDB files all nine occurrences under a single root glossed feel a loathing, abhorrence, sickening dread, and marks the verb as possibly denominative from קוֹץ, thorn, a derivation the later lexica record without endorsing. HALOT and DCH likewise keep one root and organize the material by what governs the object: disgust where the object follows with בְּ (Genesis 27:46, Numbers 21:5, Leviticus 20:23, 1 Kings 11:25, Proverbs 3:11), and fear where it follows with מִפְּנֵי (Exodus 1:12, Numbers 22:3, Isaiah 7:16). The one Hiphil, וּנְקִיצֶנָּה at Isaiah 7:6, is the contested datum: the lexica read it as the causative of this root, let us make it dread, with the following וְנַבְקִעֶנָּה supplying the assault on the wall, while a long-standing alternative derives the form from a root meaning to split or cut open, which yields a near synonym of the breaching verb beside it; modern versions divide accordingly, and the commentaries on Isaiah 7 (Wildberger, Blenkinsopp) treat the line as a recognized crux. Semantically the verb belongs to a small affective cluster with קוּט, גָּעַל, תָּעַב, and מָאַס; the explicit pairing with מָאַס in Proverbs 3:11 and the proximity of מָאֹס in Isaiah 7:16 show it functioning as the member that supplies revulsion where מָאַס supplies refusal. The Septuagint uses no fixed equivalent, rendering προσοχθίζω at Genesis 27:46 and βδελύσσομαι at Exodus 1:12, and Hebrews 12:5, quoting Proverbs 3:11, has ἐκλύω, be enfeebled, which reads the Hebrew as losing heart under discipline rather than being disgusted by it. At 1 Kings 11:25 the clause preceding the verb is disturbed in the Masoretic Text and the Greek tradition arranges the Hadad and Rezon notices differently, which unsettles the identity of the subject (Cogan) but not the sense of the verb.