ΒΔΕΛΥΞΑΙ, βδελυξαι
BDELYXAI, bdelyxai
Sounds Like: bdeh-LOO-xai
Translations: to detest, to abhor, to make abominable, to be an abomination
From the root: ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to detest, abhor, or feel disgust towards something. It can also mean to make something abominable or to be an abomination oneself. It is often used in a religious context to describe something that is morally repugnant or unclean.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0946 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 1:48
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 1:48
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΒΔΕΛΥ — to detest, to abhor, to make abominable, to be abominable, to be detestable
- ΒΔΕΛΥΞΕΣΘΕ — you will detest, you will abhor, you will loathe
- ΒΔΕΛΥΞΕΤΕ — you will detest, you will abhor, you will make abominable
- ΒΔΕΛΥΞΗ — you will detest, you will abhor, you will loathe, you will make abominable, you will defile
- ΒΔΕΛΥΞΗΤΕ — you will detest, you will abhor, you will make abominable
- ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣ — to detest, to abhor, to abominate, to make abominable, to be abominable
- ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΗ — you abhor, you detest, you abominate
- ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΟΜΕΝΟΙ — abhorring, detesting, abominating, those who abhor, those who detest
- ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΟΜΕΝΟΣ — detesting, abhorring, being disgusted by, abominating
- ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they detest, they abhor, they abominate, they make abominable
- ΒΔΕΛΥΣΣΩ — to detest, to abhor, to make abominable, to be abominable, to be detestable
- ΒΔΕΛΥΧΘΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be abhorred, will be detested, will be an abomination
- ἘΒΔΕΛΥΓΜΕΝΑ — abominable things, detestable things, loathsome things
- ἘΒΔΕΛΥΞΑΤΕ — you abhorred, you detested, you made abominable, you made yourselves detestable
- ἘΒΔΕΛΥΤΤΟΝΤΟ — they detested, they abhorred, they loathed
- ΕΒΔΕΛΥΓΜΕΝΟΙΣ — to abominable ones, to detestable ones, to defiled ones, for abominable ones, for detestable ones, for defiled ones, by abominable ones, by detestable ones, by defiled ones, with abominable ones, with detestable ones, with defiled ones
- ΕΒΔΕΛΥΚΤΑΙ — has become detestable, has been made an abomination, has been abhorred, has been detested
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