Dictionaries :: Abhor

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Abhor:

ab‐hor': "To cast away," "reject," "despise," "defy," "contemn," "loathe," etc.

(1) Translated in the Old Testament from the following Hebrew words amongst others: (ba'ash), "to be or to become stinking" (1Sa 27:12; 2Sa 16:21); (ga‘al), ""to cast away as unclean,"" ""to loathe""; compare Eze 16:5 the King James Version; (quts), ""to loathe,"" ""to fear"" (Ex 1:12 m; 1Ki 11:25; Isa 7:16); (shaqats), ""to detest"" (Ps 22:24); (ta'abh), (ta‘abh), ""to contemn"" (De 23:7); (dera'on), ""an object of contempt,"" ""an abhorring"" (Isa 66:24; Da 12:2 margin).

(2) Translated in the New Testament from the following Greek words: bdelussomai, which is derived from bdeo, ""to stink"" (Ro 2:22); apostugeo, derived from stugeo, ""to hate,"" ""to shrink from"" (Ro 12:9).

Written by Arthur L. Breslich

King James Dictionary

Abhor: Despise; Spurn; Regard with Horror.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. All my inward friends ABHORRED me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. (Job 19:18-19)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Abhor:

denotes "to shudder" (apo, "from," here used intensively, stugeo, "to hate") hence, "to abhor," Rom 12:9.

Abhor:

"to render foul" (from bdeo, "to stink"), "to cause to be abhorred" (in the Sept. in Exd 5:21; Lev 11:43; 20:25, etc.), is used in the Middle Voice, signifying "to turn oneself away from" (as if from a stench); hence, "to detest," Rom 2:22. In Rev 21:8 it denotes "to be abominable."
See ABOMINABLE.