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βδελύσσομαι

bdelussomai

feel a loathing for food

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Where it lives

  • Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 3 · 5.97/10k
  • Esther 3 · 5.42/10k
  • Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
  • Job 4 · 3/10k
  • Leviticus 5 · 2.67/10k
  • Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
  • Psalmi 8 · 2.34/10k
  • Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
  • Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
  • Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βδελύσσομαι · bdelyssomai — LSJ

feel a loathing for food, to be sick

feel a loathing for food, Hp. ll. cc.; to be sick, Ar. V. 792.

2 feel a loathing at

c. acc., feel a loathing at, Id. Ach. 586, LXX l.c., al., Plu. Alex. 57; β. [τραγῳδίας] Jul. l.c.; ὠμοφαγίαν ib. 6.193c: β. ἀπό τινων LXX Ex. 1.12.

II cause to stink, make loathsome, abominable, to be loathsome, the abominable, an idol)

later causal, in Act., cause to stink, make loathsome or abominable, fut. -ύξω LXX Le. 20.25: aor. ἐβδέλυξα ib. Ex. 5.21:—Med. and Pass., to be loathsome, fut. -υχθήσομαι ib. Si. 20.8: aor. -ύχθην ib. Ps. 13(14).1: pf. ἐβδέλυγμαι ib. Pr. 8.7; οἱ ἐβδελυγμένοι the abominable (in ref. to the use of βδέλυγμα as an idol), Apoc. 21.8:—this pf. in causal sense, LXX Pr. 28.9. (Cf. βδέω.)

In the wild

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Where it came from

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