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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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denotes "to shudder" (apo, "from," here used intensively, stugeo, "to hate") hence, "to abhor," Romans 12:9 .
"to render foul" (from bdeo, "to stink"), "to cause to be abhorred" (in the Sept. in Exodus 5:21; Leviticus 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," Romans 2:22 . In Revelation 21:8 it denotes "to be abominable." See ABOMINABLE.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Abhor'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​a/abhor.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Abhor'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​a/abhor.html. 1940.