Definition

to detest utterly

Etymology

from G575 (ἀπό) and the base of G4767 (στυγνητός);

Word family

• ἀπό apó
• στυγνητός stygnētós

How the KJV renders it

• abhor

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.