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Strong's G946 βδέλυγμα (bdelygma)

Bdelygma means “abomination” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H946 — bunah in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G946
Language Greek
Linked Usages 120
Books 24

Strong's G946 Quick Answer

Strong's G946 βδέλυγμα (bdelugma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. bdelugma (bdel'-oog-mah) n. 1. a detestation 2. (specially) idolatry It has 120 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include abomination and abominations. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
bdelugma (bdel'-oog-mah) n. 1. a detestation 2. (specially) idolatry
Usage
120 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
abomination and abominations

Meaning and Definition

bdelugma (bdel'-oog-mah) n. 1. a detestation 2. (specially) idolatry [from G948] KJV: abomination Root(s): G948

Original Word
βδέλυγμα
Transliteration
bdelugma
Derivation
Root: βδελύσσω R1: 948
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G946. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

abomination

Usage: βδέλυγμα, -τος, τό (βδελύσσω), [in LXX chiefly for שֶׁקֶץ ,תּוֹעֵבָה ;] an abomination, a detestable thing: Luk.16:15, Rev.17:4, 5 21:27; τὸ β. τ. ἐρημώσεως (Dan LXX 12:11, cf . 1Ma.1:54; DB, i, 12f.; DCG, i, 6f.), Mrk.13:14, Mat.24:15 (Cremer, 138).† (AS)

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How Strong's G946 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bdelugma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

abomination Matthew 24:15 abominations Revelation 17:4

How Strong's G946 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 100 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G946 (βδέλυγμα) appears 119 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G946 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G946 in the New Testament

6 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 24:15 KJV

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Mark 13:14 KJV

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Luke 16:15 KJV

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Strong's G946 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

100 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 43:32 Septuagint / Brenton

And they set on bread for him alone, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians feasting with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians.

Genesis 46:34 Septuagint / Brenton

Ye shall say, We thy servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

Exodus 8:22 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses said, It cannot be so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians; for if we sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.

Strong's G946 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 7:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations of the people of the land, and sought the Lord.

1 Maccabees 1:54 Septuagint / Brenton

Now the fifteenth day of the month Chislev, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and built idol altars throughout the cities of Judah on every side;

1 Maccabees 6:7 Septuagint / Brenton

also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Beth-zur.

Strong's G946 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 99:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood (and stone) and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G946.

Genesis 43:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they set on bread for him alone, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians feasting with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Genesis 46:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall say, We thy servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Exodus 8:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said, It cannot be so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians; for if we sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.
Leviticus 5:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
That soul which shall touch any unclean thing, or carcass, or that which is unclean being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of abominable reptiles which are unclean, or carcasses of unclean cattle,
Leviticus 7:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering, which is the Lord’s, that soul shall perish from his people.
Leviticus 11:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all things which have not fins or scales in the water, or in the seas, and in the brooks, of all which the waters produce, and of every soul living in the water, are an abomination; and they shall be abominations to you.
Leviticus 11:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not eat of their flesh, and ye shall abhor their carcasses.
Leviticus 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all things that have not fins or scales of those that are in the waters, these are an abomination to you.
Leviticus 11:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these are the things which ye shall abhor of birds, and they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle and the ossifrage, and the sea eagle.
Leviticus 11:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all winged creatures that creep, which go upon four feet, are abominations to you.
Leviticus 11:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every creeping thing from among the birds, which has four feet, is an abomination to you.
Leviticus 11:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every reptile that creeps on the earth, this shall be an abomination to you; it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 11:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And every animal that creeps on its belly, and every one that goes on four feet continually, which abounds with feet among all the reptiles creeping upon the earth—ye shall not eat it, for it is an abomination to you.
Leviticus 18:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
Leviticus 18:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and ye shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you
Leviticus 18:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled),
Leviticus 18:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.
Leviticus 20:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.
Deuteronomy 7:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, so shouldest thou be an accursed thing like it; thou shalt utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.
Deuteronomy 12:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 13:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then thou shalt inquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold, if the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you,
Deuteronomy 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy 17:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, or any evil thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 17:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and it be told thee, and thou shalt have inquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;
Deuteronomy 18:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For everyone that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.
Deuteronomy 20:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and so ye should sin before the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The apparel of a man shall not be on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman’s dress; for everyone that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 23:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
Deuteronomy 25:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For everyone that does this is an abomination to the Lord thy God, even everyone that does injustice.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 29:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom ye came.
Deuteronomy 32:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They provoked me to anger with strange gods; With their abominations they bitterly angered me.
3 Kingdoms 11:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians.
3 Kingdoms 11:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because he forsook me, and sacrificed to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh, and to the idols of Moab, and to their king the abomination of the children of Ammon, and he walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David his father did.
3 Kingdoms 14:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel.
3 Kingdoms 20:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he did very abominably in following after the abominations, according to all that the Amorite did, whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.
4 Kingdoms 16:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
4 Kingdoms 17:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they feared the Lord, yet they established their abominations in the houses of the high places which they made in Samaria, each nation in the city in which they dwelt: and they feared the Lord, and they made for themselves priests of the high places, and sacrificed for themselves in the house of the high places.
4 Kingdoms 21:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
4 Kingdoms 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Forasmuch as Manasseh the king of Judah has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before him, and has led Judah also into sin by their idols,
4 Kingdoms 23:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and to Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
2 Chronicles 15:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, then he strengthened himself, and cast out the abominations from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities which Jeroboam possessed, in Mount Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the Lord, which was before the temple of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 28:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he sacrificed to their idols in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and passed his children through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Josiah removed all the abominations out of the whole land which belonged to the children of Israel, and caused all that were found in Jerusalem and in Israel, to serve the Lord their God all his days: he departed not from following the Lord God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 36:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
was in Jerusalem.
Psalms 87:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; They have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.
Proverbs 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
False balances are an abomination before the Lord: But a just weight is acceptable unto him.
Proverbs 11:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: But all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.
Proverbs 12:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.
Proverbs 15:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; But the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.
Proverbs 15:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ways of an ungodly man are an abomination to the Lord; But he loves those that follow after righteousness.
Proverbs 15:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the sayings of the pure are held in honor.
Proverbs 16:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
An evildoer is an abomination to a king; For the throne of rule is established by righteousness.
Proverbs 20:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.
Proverbs 21:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination to the Lord, For they offer them wickedly.
Proverbs 34:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 36:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;
Isaiah 2:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshiped the works which their fingers made.
Isaiah 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats;
Isaiah 17:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.
Isaiah 41:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
whence ye are, and whence is your work: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.
Isaiah 44:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.
Isaiah 66:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine’s blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine’s flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If Israel will return to me, saith the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and swear,
Jeremiah 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
so that it is evil with you; yet have ye come, and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and ye have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.
Jeremiah 7:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the children of Judah have wrought evil before me, saith the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.
Jeremiah 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why has my beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and holy offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or shalt thou escape by these things?
Jeremiah 13:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?
Jeremiah 16:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.
Jeremiah 39:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they built to Baal the altars that are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer their sons and their daughters to King Molech; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah 51:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord could no longer bear you, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;
Ezekiel 5:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord; surely, because thou hast defiled my holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.
Ezekiel 6:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices); and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
Ezekiel 6:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; Clap with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot and say, Aha, aha! for all the abominations of the house of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.
Ezekiel 7:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now I will pour out mine anger upon thee near at hand, and I will accomplish my wrath on thee: and I will judge thee for thy ways, and recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that smite thee.
Ezekiel 7:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgment upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee.
Ezekiel 7:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy way upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.
Ezekiel 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.
Ezekiel 11:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations of it, and all its iniquities from it.
Ezekiel 11:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said to them, Let every one cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they revolted from me, and would not hearken to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations,
Ezekiel 33:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.
Ezekiel 36:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall remember your evil ways, and your practices that were not good, and ye shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations.
Daniel 9:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink offering shall be taken away: and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of the time an end shall be put to the desolation.
Daniel 11:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual sacrifice, and make the abomination desolate.
Daniel 12:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Zechariah 9:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will take their blood out of their mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and these also shall be left to our God, and they shall be as a captain of a thousand in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Malachi 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Judah has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.
Matthew 24:15 New Testament, KJV
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mark 13:14 New Testament, KJV
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Luke 16:15 New Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Revelation 17:4 New Testament, KJV
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Revelation 17:5 New Testament, KJV
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 21:27 New Testament, KJV
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
1 Esdras 7:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations of the people of the land, and sought the Lord.
1 Maccabees 1:54 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the fifteenth day of the month Chislev, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and built idol altars throughout the cities of Judah on every side;
1 Maccabees 6:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Beth-zur.
Wisdom of Solomon 12:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, Thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: Because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, And stumbling blocks to the souls of men, And a snare to the feet of the unwise.
Wisdom of Sirach 1:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But godliness is an abomination to a sinner.
Wisdom of Sirach 10:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For pride is the beginning of sin, And he that hath it shall pour out abomination: And therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, And overthrew them utterly.
Wisdom of Sirach 13:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As the proud hate humility: So doth the rich abhor the poor.
Wisdom of Sirach 15:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord hateth all abomination; And they that fear God love it not.
Wisdom of Sirach 17:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Turn again to the most High, and turn away from iniquity: For he will lead thee out of darkness into the light of health, And hate thou abomination vehemently.
Wisdom of Sirach 19:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; And there is a fool wanting in wisdom.
Wisdom of Sirach 27:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; And the sinful man shall have them both.
Wisdom of Sirach 49:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, And took away the abominations of iniquity.
1 Enoch 99:7 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood (and stone) and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G946, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G946 FAQ

What does bdelygma (βδέλυγμα) mean?

Bdelygma (Strong's G946) is a Greek word most simply glossed "abomination". bdelugma (bdel'-oog-mah) n. 1. a detestation 2. (specially) idolatry

How many times is bdelygma (βδέλυγμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 120 linked usages for Strong's G946 across 24 books.

Where can I study bdelygma (βδέλυγμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G946 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate bdelygma (βδέλυγμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as abomination and abominations. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G946 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 100 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G946, with linked reader references where each row is available.