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Lexicon :: Strong's G948 - bdelyssō

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βδελύσσω
Transliteration
bdelyssō (Key)
Pronunciation
bdel-oos'-so
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a (presumed) derivative of bdeo (to stink)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:598,*

Strong’s Definitions

βδελύσσω bdelýssō, bdel-oos'-so; from a (presumed) derivative of βδέω bdéō (to stink); to be disgusted, i.e. (by implication) detest (especially of idolatry):—abhor, abominable.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G948 in the following manner: abhor (1x), abominable (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G948 in the following manner: abhor (1x), abominable (1x).
  1. to render foul, to cause to be abhorred

  2. abominable

  3. to turn one's self away from on account of the stench

  4. metaph. to abhor, detest

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βδελύσσω bdelýssō, bdel-oos'-so; from a (presumed) derivative of βδέω bdéō (to stink); to be disgusted, i.e. (by implication) detest (especially of idolatry):—abhor, abominable.
STRONGS G948:
βδελύσσω: (βδέω quietly to break wind, to stink);
1. to render foul, to cause to be abhorred: τὴν ὀσμήν, Exodus 5:21; to defile, pollute: τὰς ψυχάς, τ. ψυχήν, Leviticus 11:43; Leviticus 20:25; 1 Macc. 1:48; perfect passive participle ἐβδελυγμένος abominable, Revelation 21:8, (Leviticus 18:30; Proverbs 8:7; Job 15:16; 3 Macc. 6:9; βδελυσσόμενος, 2 Macc. 5:8). In native Greek writings neither the active nor the passive is found.
2. βδελύσσομαι; deponent middle (1 aorist ἐβδελυξάμην often in the Sept. [Josephus, b. j. 6, 2, 10]; in Greek writings deponent passive, and from Aristophanes down); properly, to turn oneself away from on account of the stench; metaphorically, to abhor, detest: τί, Romans 2:22.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
5:21
Leviticus
1; 11:43; 18:30; 20:25
Job
15:16
Proverbs
8:7
Romans
2:22
Revelation
21:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G948 matches the Greek βδελύσσω (bdelyssō),
which occurs 34 times in 33 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:29 - that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you [fn]and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of Yahweh.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they [fn]spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - And they said to them, “May Yahweh look upon you and judge, for you have made [fn]us a foul smell in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:11 - and they shall be detestable to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:13 -

‘These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the [fn]eagle and the vulture and the [fn]buzzard,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - ‘Do not render [fn]yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am Yahweh your God.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23 - ‘Moreover, you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I will cast out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have loathed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You are therefore to separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [fn]yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything [fn]that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:11 - ‘Moreover, I will [fn]make My [fn]dwelling among you, and My soul will not loathe you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:26 - “And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become devoted to destruction like it; you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 -

“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:31 -

Yet You would plunge me into the pit,

And my own clothes would abhor me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 -

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

Man, who drinks [fn]unrighteousness like water!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:19 -

“All the men of my counsel abhor me,

And those I love have turned against me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10 -

“They abhor me and keep a distance from me,

And they do not [fn]hold back from spitting at my face.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:6 -

You destroy those who speak falsehood;

Yahweh abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:1 -

For the choir director. Of David.

The [fn]wicked fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

They act corruptly, they commit abominable [fn]deeds;

There is no one who does good.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20 -

And those who repay evil for good,

They accuse me, for I pursue what is good.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:1 -

For the choir director. According to [fn]Mahalath. A [fn]Maskil of David.

The wicked fool says in his heart, “There is no God,”

They act corruptly, and commit abominable injustice;

There is no one who does good.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:5 -

All day long they [fn]distort my words;

All their [fn]thoughts are against me for evil.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:40 -

So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against His people

And He abhorred His [fn]inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18 -

Their soul abhorred all kinds of food,

And they reached the gates of death.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:163 -

I hate and abhor lying,

But I love Your law.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:9 -

He who turns away his ear from listening to the law,

Even his prayer is an abomination.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 -

“But you have been cast out of your grave

Like an abhorred branch,

[fn]Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit

Like a trampled corpse.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:7 -

Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,

To the despised One,

To the One abhorred by the nation,

To the Servant of rulers,

“Kings will see and arise,

Princes will also bow down,

Because of Yahweh who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:5 -

Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at His word:

“Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name’s sake,

Have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your gladness.’

But they will be put to shame.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 -

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;

I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.

But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [fn]shame,

And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:10 -

They hate him who reproves in the [fn]gate,

And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:8 -

Lord Yahweh has sworn by Himself, Yahweh God of hosts has declared:

“I abhor the lofty pride of Jacob

And hate his citadels;

Therefore I will deliver up the city as well as its fullness.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:9 -

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob

And rulers of the house of Israel,

Who abhor justice

And twist everything that is straight,

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