'Thing' in the Bible

In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.