noun · neuter
bdelugmem
Strong’sG946
an abominable thing, an accursed thing
stem bdelugm-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† βδέλυγμα, -τος, τό
(< βδελύσσω), [in LXX chiefly for שֶׁקֶץ,תּוֹעֵבָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G946 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbdel'-oog-mah
a detestation, i.e. (specially) idolatry
Fromfrom G948;
King Jamesabomination.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
abomination, τοῖς Αἰγ. πᾶς ποιμήν β. LXX; β. τῶν ἐρημώσεων, ἐρημώσεως, of an idol,LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | bdelugmem1×βδέλυγμα | bdelugmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | bdelugmeu | bdelugmeiu2×βδελυγμάτων |
| to, for dative | bdelugme | bdelugmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
bdelugme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
bdelugmem“abomination”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Luke 16:15“abomination”… vu; hoti tem en anthrōpoi hupsēlem bdelugmem enōpion tou theou.… God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
bdelugmeiu“abominations”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Revelation 17:4… chrusouem en ta cheira autau gemarōntem bdelugmeiu kai teim akatharteim tau porneiau autau,… hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual …
Revelation 17:5… tas mētēras taiu pornaiu kai teiu bdelugmeiu tau gēau.… MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
bdelugmem3×
Matthew 24:15Hotan oun horaveia tem bdelugmem tau erēmōsiau tem legirantem dia Daniēl …… standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the …
Mark 13:14Hotan de horaveia tem bdelugmem tau erēmōsiau stēarēnton hopou ouk datō, …So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should …
Revelation 21:27… eis autan pantem koinem kai poiarōntos bdelugmem kai pseudem, ei mē tois graforēntois …… it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those …