Bible Dictionary: Loathe

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for; to hate.

2. (v. t.) To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.

3. (v. i.) To feel disgust or nausea.

Greek

1609. ekptuo -- to spit out, to spurn
... out, to spurn. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekptuo Phonetic Spelling:
(ek-ptoo'-o) Short Definition: I spit upon, disdain, reject, loathe Definition: ...
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948. bdelussomai -- to detest
... detest. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: bdelussomai Phonetic Spelling:
(bdel-oos'-so) Short Definition: I abhor, detest Definition: I abhor, detest, loathe ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8374. taab -- to loathe
... to loathe. Transliteration: taab Phonetic Spelling: (taw-ab') Short Definition:
loathe. Word Origin from taab Definition to loathe NASB Word Usage loathe (1). ...
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1602. gaal -- to abhor, loathe
... 1601, 1602. gaal. 1603 . to abhor, loathe. Transliteration: gaal Phonetic Spelling:
(gaw-al') Short Definition: loathed. ... abhor, fail, loathe, vilely cast away ...
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6973. quts -- to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread
... root Definition to feel a loathing, abhorrence, or sickening dread NASB Word Usage
abhorred (2), dread (3), loathe (2), terrorize (1), tired (1). ...
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6962a. qut -- to feel a loathing
... qut. 6962b . to feel a loathing. Transliteration: qut Short Definition: loathe. ...
root Definition to feel a loathing NASB Word Usage loathe (6), loathed (1). ...
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6962. quwt -- to feel a loathing
... be grieved, loathe self A primitive root; properly, to cut off, ie (figuratively)
detest -- begrieved, loathe self. 6961b, 6962. quwt. 6962a . ...
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2092. zaham -- to be foul, loathsome
... root Definition to be foul, loathsome NASB Word Usage loathes (1). abhor. A primitive
root; to be rancid, ie (transitively) to loathe -- abhor. 2091, 2092. ...
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3811. laah -- to be weary or impatient
... 2), wearied (4), wearies (1), weary (5). faint, grieve, loathe, be, make
weary selves. A primitive root; to tire; (figuratively) to ...
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3988. ma'ac -- to reject
... A primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear -- abhor, cast away
(off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse ...
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5354. naqat -- weary
... Definition: weary. Word Origin the same as qut, qv. weary A primitive root; to loathe --
weary. 5353, 5354. naqat. 5355 . Strong's Numbers.
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8262. shaqats -- to detest, make detestable
... A primitive root; to be filthy, ie (intensively) to loathe, pollute -- abhor, make
abominable, have in abomination, detest, X utterly. 8261, 8262. ...
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Library

"Who Walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. "
... And this likewise I speak for your use, that ye may loathe and abhor yourselves,
as much in yourselves, who are made clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, as if ...
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What Self Deserves
... On Lord's-day Evening, 18th December, 1870. "Ye shall loathe yourselves in your
own sight for your iniquities, and for your abominations.""Ezekiel 36:31. ...
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That all Witting and Feeling of a Man's Own Being must Needs be ...
... Thus shalt thou do with thyself: thou shalt loathe and be weary with all that thing
that worketh in thy wit and in thy will unless it be only God. ...
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At a Public Fast in July, First Sabbath, 1650. (257)
... these. Is there any more abasing and humbling principle than love? How shall
the sinner loathe himself in his glorious presence? Will ...
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The Pelagians Can Hardly Venture to Place Concupiscence in ...
... what if the aforesaid laudable lust should hanker even after such delight; I wonder
whether they should pursue it because it was sweet, or loathe it because it ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 59 xxxv the pelagians can.htm

Love Thine Enemy.
... Shall that divine something, which, once awakened to be its own holy self in the
man, will loathe these unlovely things tenfold more than we loathe them now ...
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Go Back? Never!
... Ah! how often will our imagination paint sin in very glowing colours, and though
we loathe the sin and loathe ourselves for thinking of it, yet how many a man ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/go back never.htm

The Pilgrim's Longings
... how often will our imagination paint sin in very glowing colors, and, though we
loathe sin and loathe ourselves for thinking of it, yet how many a man might say ...
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Spiritual Appetite
... In the pursuit of knowledge men may come to loathe honeycombs through sheer repletion. ...
II. Secondly"there are those who loathe the sweetness of our Lord. ...
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How to Become Like Christ.
... We may loathe the character of the sensualist; no language is too strong for us
when we speak of him: but if we, in point of fact, respond to appeals made to ...
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Thesaurus

Loathe (19 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) To feel disgust or nausea. Multi-Version Concordance Loathe (19 Occurrences). ...
You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples? (WEY). ...
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Abhor (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation;
to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. ...
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Loathed (13 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Loathe. Multi-Version Concordance Loathed
(13 Occurrences). Leviticus 26:30 And I have destroyed ...
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Grief (252 Occurrences)
... grieve him in the desert." Of other words sometimes translated "grief" may be mentioned
quT, "to weary of," "to loathe" (Psalm 95:10), "Forty long years was I ...
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Grieve (29 Occurrences)
... grieve him in the desert." Of other words sometimes translated "grief" may be mentioned
quT, "to weary of," "to loathe" (Psalm 95:10), "Forty long years was I ...
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Evils (26 Occurrences)
... broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which
play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in ...
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Abomination (78 Occurrences)
... and, accordingly, he would everywhere render it specifically "refuse meat." Compare
lechem megho'al, "the loaths ome bread" (from ga'al, "to loathe") Malachi 1 ...
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Practices (80 Occurrences)
... broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which
play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in ...
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Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT NAS). Job 7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway:
let me alone; for my days are vanity. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT). ...
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Kick (8 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 26:15 and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe,
so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant -- (YLT). ...
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Bible Concordance

Loathe (19 Occurrences)

Romans 2:22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples?
(WEY)

Galatians 4:14 and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself!
(See NAS)

Exodus 7:18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Leviticus 26:11 And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you;
(YLT)

Leviticus 26:15 and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --
(YLT)

Numbers 11:20 unto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who 'is' in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this? -- we have come out of Egypt!'
(Root in YLT NIV)

Numbers 21:5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Job 7:16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Job 9:21 I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
(See RSV)

Job 10:1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Job 16:8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
(YLT)

Job 42:6 Therefore do I loathe 'it', And I have repented on dust and ashes.
(YLT)

Psalms 119:158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
(See NAS)

Psalms 139:21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
(DBY NAS RSV)

Proverbs 3:11 My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 6:9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 20:43 There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 36:31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 6:8 "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Loathe

Related Terms

Abhor (23 Occurrences)

Loathed (13 Occurrences)

Grief (252 Occurrences)

Grieve (29 Occurrences)

Evils (26 Occurrences)

Abomination (78 Occurrences)

Practices (80 Occurrences)

Vanity (100 Occurrences)

Kick (8 Occurrences)