Quick Definition
μισέω v. I hate, detest
Strong's Definition
from a primary misos (hatred); to detest (especially to persecute); by extension, to love less
KJV Usage: hate(-ful)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb
88.198 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Hate, Hateful
to hate, to detest to dislike strongly, with the implication of aversion and hostility Expressions for ‘hatred’ frequently involve idiomatic phrases, for example, ‘to kill in the heart’ or ‘to spit at someone in the heart.’
MAT 5:43 · MAT 6:24 · MAT 10:22 · MAT 24:9 · MAT 24:10 · MRK 13:13 · LUK 1:71 · LUK 6:22 · LUK 6:27 · LUK 14:26 · LUK 16:13 · LUK 19:14 · LUK 21:17 · JHN 3:20 · JHN 7:7 · JHN 7:7 · JHN 12:25 · JHN 15:18 · JHN 15:18 · JHN 15:19 · JHN 15:23 · JHN 15:23 · JHN 15:24 · JHN 15:25 · JHN 17:14 · ROM 7:15 · ROM 9:13 · EPH 5:29 · TIT 3:3 · HEB 1:9 · 1JN 2:9 · 1JN 2:11 · 1JN 3:13 · 1JN 3:15 · 1JN 4:20 · JUD 1:23 · REV 2:6 · REV 2:6 · REV 17:16 · REV 18:2
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μισέω, -ῶ; impf. ἐμίσουν; fut. pronow; 1 aor. ἐμίσησα; pf. pepionxa; Pass., pres. ptcp. μισούμενος ; pf. ptep. μεμισημένος (Rev. xviii. 2); Sept. for s3v; [fr. Hom. down]; to hate, pursue with hatred, detest; pass. to be hated, detested: τινά, Mt. v. 43 and Ree. in 44; xxiv. 10; Lk. i. 71; vi. 22,27; xix.14; Jn. vii. 7; xv. 18 sq. 28-25; xvii. 14; Tit. iii. 3; 1 Jn. ii. 9, [11]; iii. 13,15; iv. 20; Rev. xvii. 16; pass., Mt. x. 22; xxiv.9; [Mk. xiii. 13]; Lk. xxi. 17; ri: Jn. iii. 20; Ro. vii. 15; Eph. v. 29; Heb. i. 9; Jude 23; Rev. ii. 6 and Rec. in 15; pass. ib. vviii. 2. Not a few interpreters have attributed to μισεῖν in Gen. xxix. 31 (cf. 30); Deut. xxi. 15 sq.; Mt. vi. 24; Lk. xiv. 26; xvi. 13; [Jn. xii. 25]; Ro. ix. 13, the signification to love less, to postpone in love or esteem, to slight, through oversight of the circumstance that ‘the Orientals, in accordance with their greater excitability, are wont both to feel and to profess love and hate where we Occidentals, with our cooler temperament, feel and express nothing more than interest in, or disregard and indifference to a thing’; Fritzsche, Com. on Rom. ii. p. 304; cf. Riickert, Magazin f. Exegese ἃ. Theologie des INS ΠΟ Ρ. 21 ἘΠη.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μισέω miseō 40x
to hate, regard with ill-will, Mt. 5:43, 44; 10:22; to detest, abhor, Jn. 3:20; Rom. 7:15; in NT to regard with less affection, love less, esteem less, Mt. 6:24; Lk. 14:26
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μισέω, -ῶ,
[in LXX chiefly for שָׂנֵא;]
to hate: c. acc. pers., Mt 5:43 24:10, Lk 1:71 6:22, 27 19:14, Jo 7:7 15:18, 19, 23-25 17:14, Tit 3:3, I Jo 2:9, 11 3:13, 15 4:20, Re 17:16; pass., Mt 10:22 24:9, Mk 13:13, Lk 21:17; c. acc. rei, Jo 3:20, Ro 7:15, Eph 5:29, He 1:9, Ju 23, Re 2:6; pass., Re 18:2. As the Heb. שָׂנֵא is sometimes found with the modified sense of indifference to or relative disregard for one thing in comparison with another (cf. Ge 29:30, 31, De 21:15, 16, Ma 1:3) so prob. μ. in the foll.: Mt 6:24, Lk 14:26 16:13, Jo 12:25, Ro 9:13(LXX).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μισέω, which survives in MGr μισῶ, is not so common in our sources as we might have expected, but cf. PSI III. 158%? (iii/A.D. ?) βαρυόσμους μεισουμένους ὑπὸ τῶν ἀ[σ]τείων γυναικῶν, “ evil-smelling persons hated by refined women,” 7). I. 4122 (iv/A.p.) ἅπερ ἡ φύσις peot, P Oxy VI. go2?’ (c. A.D. 465) μισοῦσειν yap of νόμοι τοὺς τὰ ἄδικα διαπραττομέν[ο]υς, ‘for the perpetrators of injustice are hateful to the laws” (Edd.), and the Christian amulet 20. VIII. T1512 (v/A.D. Ὁ) φεῦγε πν(εῦμ)α μεμισιμένον (/. μεμισημένον). For the subst. μῖσος cf. Vett. Val. p. 24255 ἡ ἐπιστήμη . . ὑπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας στηριζομένη TO. . μῖσος ἀποδιώξει, and the quotation from Menander Fyagm. p. 187 s.v. κατατίθημι. With Jenandrea p. 1878 θεῖον δὲ μισεῖ μῖσος, cf. Ps 138 (139)**, where the same cogn. acc. occurs.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
μισέω (miseō) — to hate. μῑσ-έω, perfect μεμίσηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future middle in passive sense μισήσομαι [LXX+5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐμισήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect μεμίσημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: (μῖσος):—hate, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, μίσησεν δ᾽ ἄρα μιν δηΐων κυσὶ κύρμα γενέσθαι Zeus hated (would not suffer) that he should become a prey.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ μισοῦντ᾽ ἐκείνην τὴν πόλιν, τὸ μὴ οὐ μεγάλην εἶναι not hating that city, as not being.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μισῶ λακωνίζειν I hate Laconizing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: but mostly with accusative, ὑβρίζοντα μισεῖν [LXX+5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be hated, [Refs 5th c.BC+]