G948: βδελύσσω (bdelýssō)

G948 βδελύσσω (bdelýssō)

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Quick Definition

βδελύσσομαι v. I abhor, detest

Strong's Definition

from a (presumed) derivative of bdeo (to stink); to be disgusted, i.e. (by implication) detest (especially of idolatry)

KJV Usage: abhor, abominable

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

βδελύσσομαι (G0948)

verb | βδέλυγμα · βδελυκτός

25.186 · Attitudes and Emotions · Abhor

to abhor, to abominate to strongly detest something on the basis that it is abominable It is possible that in REV 21:8 ἐβδελυγμένοις refers to sexual perverts.

ROM 2:22 · REV 21:8

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

βδελύσσω : (βδέω quietly to break wind, to stink) ; 1. to render foul, to cause to be abhorred: τὴν ὀσμήν, Ex. y. 21; to defile, pollute: ras ψυχάς, τ. ψυχήν, Lev. xi. 43 ; xx. 25; 1 Mace. i. 48; pf. pass. ptep. ἐβδελυγμένος abominable, Rev. xxi. 8, (Lev. xviii. 30; Prov. viii. 7; Job xv. 16; 3 Mace. vi. 9; βδελυσσόμενος, 2 Mace. v. 8). In native Grk. writ. neither the act. nor the pass. is found. 2. βδελύσσομαι; depon. mid. (1 aor. ἐβδελυξάμην often in Sept. [Joseph. b. j. 6, 2, 10]; in Grk. writ. depon. passive, and fr. Arstph. down) ; prop. to turn one’s self away from on account of the stench; metaph. to abhor, detest: ri, Ro. ii. 22.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

βδελύσσομαι bdelyssomai 2x

to abominate, loathe, detest, abhor, Rom. 2:22; pass. to be abominable, detestable, Rev. 21:8*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

βδελύσσω

(< βδέω, to stink), [in LXX chiefly for תּעב, שׁקץ;] >in cl., mid. only (Attic, -ττομαι);

to make foul; pass., Re 21:8; mid., to turn away in disgust from, to detest: Ro 2:22 (Cremer, 137).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

βδελύσσομαι. Phrynichus (ed. Lobeck), p. Attic as compared with the vulgar σικχαίνομαι (MGr 226, extols this word as σιχαίνομαι), but it is by no means confined to Attic writers, as Nageli (p. 15) has pointed out: cf. Thumb Fe//en. p. So. Pelagia-Legenden, p. 9° μὴ βδελύξῃ pe τὴν ῥερυπωμένην ἀλλὰ κάθαρόν pe ἐν τῇ κολυμβήθρᾳ Tod ἁγιάσματος.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

βδελύσσομαι (bdelussomai) — to abhor. βδελύσσομαι, Attic dialect βδελύττομαι, future -ύξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐβδελύχθην [LXX+5th c.BC+]:—feel a loathing for food, Hp [Refs 8th c.BC+]; to be sick, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. with accusative, feel a loathing at, [LXX+1st c.AD+]; β. [τραγῳδίας] [Refs 4th c.AD+]; ὠμοφαγίαν [LXX]

II. later causal, in active, cause to stink, make loathsome or abominable, future -ύξω[LXX]aorist ἐβδέλυξα[LXX]:—middle and passive, to be loathsome, future -υχθήσομαι[LXX]aorist -ύχθην[LXX]perfect ἐβδέλυγμαι[LXX]; οἱ ἐβδελυγμένοι the abominable (in reference to the use of βδέλυγμα as an idol), [NT]:—this perfect in causal sense, [LXX]