quts denotes intense aversion, expressed toward peoples, conduct, food, discipline, or a threatening situation.

The attested uses most often express strong aversion directed toward a people or nation; other passages apply it to personal weariness, rejection of food or rebuke, and dread or terror in a threatened setting.

1. Aversion toward a people or nation · dominant

   In 1 Kings 11:25, the Qal sequential imperfect occurs of an adversary's stance toward Israel; the APB renders the clause "he came to loathe Israel." The same hostile response appears where Moab reacts to the sons of Israel in Numbers 22:3, while Leviticus 20:23 gives a first-person Qal form concerning the nation being driven out; Exodus 1:12 places the plural form in Israel's oppressors' response as Israel multiplies.

   1 Kings 11:25Exodus 1:12Leviticus 20:23Numbers 22:3
2. Personal rejection or weariness · common

   Genesis 27:46 uses a first-person Qal perfect in Rebekah's statement about her life because of the daughters of Heth; the APB renders her words "I am weary of my life." Numbers 21:5 applies a Qal perfect to the people's soul and the food, and Proverbs 3:11 uses a Qal jussive in the prohibition against rejecting discipline or rebuke.

   Genesis 27:46Numbers 21:5Proverbs 3:11
3. Dread or terror in a threatened setting · occasional

   Isaiah 7:6 has a first-person plural Hiphil imperfect in the proposal to go up against Judah; the APB renders the action "terrify it." Isaiah 7:16 uses a Qal active participle of the land facing desertion, where the APB describes it as the land "that you dread."

   Isaiah 7:6Isaiah 7:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with "loathe" in 1 Kings 11:25, Numbers 21:5, Numbers 22:3, and Proverbs 3:11, but elsewhere uses "in dread," "weary," "abhorred," and "terrify." These variations reflect the surrounding clauses rather than separate fixed English equivalents.