STRONGS NUMBER G655


Word Summary
apostygeō: to abhor
Original Word: ἀποστυγέω
Transliteration: apostygeō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-os-toog-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to abhor
Meaning: to abhor
Strong's Concordance
abhor.

From apo and the base of stugnetos; to detest utterly -- abhor.

see GREEK apo

see GREEK stugnetos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 655: ἀποστυγέω

ἀποστυγέω, ἀποστύγω; to dislike, abhor, have a horror of: Romans 12:9; (Herodotus 2, 47; 6, 129; Sophocles, Euripides, others.). The word is fully discussed by Fritzsche at the passage (who takes the απο( as expressive of separation (cf. Latinreformidare), others regard it as intensive; (see ἀπό, V.)).