Abomination Word Study

Things which are an abomination to God and how many times the concept is repeated in scripture.

Strongs #8441. תּוֹעֵבָה towʿebah, to-ay-baw´; or תֹּעֵבָה tonebah, to-ay-baw´; feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol:—abominable (custom, thing), abomination.

Homosexuality:
Lev. 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. Repeated 2 Times

Sexual sins: Anyone can be guilty, does not just apply to God’ chosen people:
Lev. 18:26 But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), X21

Not offering your best:
Deut. 17:1   “You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Cross Dressing/Not Acting your Sex:
Deut. 22:5   “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Giving money to God that was earned in an evil manner:
Deut. 23:18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God. X2

Sending your wife to re-marry, get another’s money, and come back to you:
Deut. 24:4 then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD.

Dishonest business practices:
Deut. 25:13  “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. 15 A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God. X4

Being skilled at evil:
Prov. 3:32
for the devious person is an abomination to the LORD,
but the upright are in his confidence.

Top seven:
Prov. 6:16
There are six things that the LORD hates,
seven that are an abomination to him: X2
17  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, X3
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18  a heart that devises wicked plans, X4
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19  a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.

Sacrifice by the ungodly:
Prov. 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD:
but the prayer of the upright is his delight.(Genesis 4) X3

Those in authority abusing their power:
Prov. 16:12
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness:
for the throne is established by righteousness. X2

Praying to God without obeying him:
Prov. 28:9
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer shall be abomination.

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Israel Accused of Abmination 53 Times

Jer. 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

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Jesus:
Luke 16:14   The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. 15 And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Revelation, equated with sexual immorality:
Rev. 17:4
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”

Abominations will not enter Heaven:
Rev. 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter i[Heaven]t, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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