Deuteronomy 7:26

a devoted thing ḥerem, see on Deuteronomy 2:34; cp. Deuteronomy 13:17 (18). Persons using or touching anything that was ḥeremor under the ban, themselves became ḥerem, cp. Joshua 6:18; Joshua 7:12.

utterly detest … utterly abhor The latter verb is that of the noun tô-ebah, abomination, see Deuteronomy 7:25; the former verb, shiḳḳeṣ, with its noun, is also used with respect to what is ritually forbidden or unclean, but chiefly in P, e.g. Leviticus 11:10-13; Leviticus 11:20; Leviticus 11:23; Leviticus 11:41 f.