Words the Bible translates as detest
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- miseōμισέωto hate: to turn against someone or something with deep ill will, and (in a comparative turn of phrase) to set one thing far below another in love or loyalty
- saneשָׂנֵאto detest: to judge something wrong and refuse to have any part in it
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- to hate: to be set against a person in active hostility, so that the one hating becomes an enemy
- to love less: to leave a person unfavored, second to someone who is preferred
- to repudiate: to break off a bond formally, whether a marriage or a covenant
- ta'avתַּעָבto abhor: to find someone or something detestable and turn away from it in loathing
+1 more meaning
- to act abominably: to commit deeds so detestable they become an abomination, especially before God
- shaqatsשִׁקֵּץto treat as detestable: to brand something loathsome and push it away in disgust
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