Bible Dictionary: Detestation

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.

Greek

946. bdelugma -- a detestable thing
... abomination. From bdelusso; a detestation, ie (specially) idolatry --
abomination. see GREEK bdelusso. (bdelugma) -- 4 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8263. sheqets -- detestation, detestable thing
... 8262, 8263. sheqets. 8264 . detestation, detestable thing. Transliteration:
sheqets Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-kets) Short Definition: detestable. ...
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Library

Whether Venial Sins are Removed by the Sprinkling of Holy Water ...
... 2]), no infusion of fresh grace is required for the forgiveness of a venial sin,
but it is enough to have an act proceeding from grace, in detestation of that ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether venial sins are removed.htm

Whether the Whole of this Life is the Time for Contrition?
... I answer that, As stated above ([4829]Q[3], A[1]), there is a twofold sorrow in
contrition: one is in the reason, and is detestation of the sin committed; the ...
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Touching Certain Forms of Immediate Acts, &C. ...
... hell, but rather to fix upon affections contrary to their present disposition; and
in case of new faults committed, let their contrition or detestation of sin ...
/.../chapter ii touching certain forms.htm

Of Scrupulosity Arising from Certain Inward Temptations. ...
... She may do well also, by words or outward gestures, to signify her renouncing and
detestation of them, as in a temptation of blasphemy let her pronounce words ...
/.../chapter ix of scrupulosity arising.htm

Whether the Damned Blaspheme?
... state. I answer that, As stated above ([2417]AA[1],3), detestation of the
Divine goodness is a necessary condition of blasphemy. Now ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the damned blaspheme.htm

Whether for the Justification of the Ungodly There is Required a ...
... to justice. Now to withdraw from sin and to draw near to justice, in an act
of free-will, means detestation and desire. For Augustine ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether for the justification of 2.htm

Whether an Angel Can be the Subject of Penance?
... Secondly, penance is taken as a virtue, and in this way its act consists in the
detestation of evil done, together with the purpose of amendment and the ...
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Whether Sins are the Proper Matter of this Sacrament?
... Hence it follows that sins are the remote matter of Penance, as a matter,
not for approval, but for detestation, and destruction. ...
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Translated by the Rev. ...
... of dislike, it is certainly proper to cease from an unjust dislike, while if its
bad character comes plainly out, instead of the detestation entertained for it ...
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A Statement in vindication of the Doctrine of the Apostles as ...
... by Christ what He promised with respect to the extension of His own worship through
all the nations, and with respect to the detestation and subversion of ...
/.../the harmony of the gospels/chapter xxxii a statement in vindication.htm

Thesaurus

Detestation (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike;
abhorrence; loathing. Multi-Version Concordance Detestation (5 Occurrences). ...
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Ash'toreth (3 Occurrences)
... Ash'toreth (3 Occurrences). 1 Kings 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess
of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites. ...
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Detestable (121 Occurrences)
... Similarly the idolatrous appurtenances are to be held in detestation; nothing of
the kind should be appropriated for private use (Deuteronomy 7:26). ...
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Ammonites (97 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the detestation of
Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestation of ...
/a/ammonites.htm - 43k

Osprey (4 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:13 And these ye shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall
not be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the great vulture, and the ...
/o/osprey.htm - 8k

Outcry (56 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm,
opposition, or detestation; clamor. 2. (n.) Sale at public auction. ...
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Loathing (6 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Loathe. 2. (n.) Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence,
or detestation. Multi-Version Concordance Loathing (6 Occurrences). ...
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Infamous (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last
degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. ...
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Things (10975 Occurrences)
... Similarly the idolatrous appurtenances are to be held in detestation; nothing of
the kind should be appropriated for private use (Deuteronomy 7:26). ...
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Reprobate (8 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) One morally abandoned and lost. 5. (vt) To disapprove with detestation or
marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. ...
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Bible Concordance

Detestation (5 Occurrences)

Leviticus 11:11 and they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in abomination.
(See JPS)

Leviticus 11:13 And these ye shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
(See JPS)

1 Kings 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
(See JPS)

1 Kings 11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
(See JPS)

2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Detestation

Related Terms

Ash'toreth (3 Occurrences)

Detestable (121 Occurrences)

Ammonites (97 Occurrences)

Osprey (4 Occurrences)

Outcry (56 Occurrences)

Loathing (6 Occurrences)

Infamous (2 Occurrences)

Things (10975 Occurrences)

Reprobate (8 Occurrences)