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An act or practice considered utterly offensive to God — especially idolatry, false worship, or ritual defilement; a key prophetic category used repeatedly in Ezekiel to explain why divine judgment falls.
lightbulbA-BOM-ination — something so offensive to God it drops like a bomb on His holiness
In biblical usage, an abomination is anything deeply offensive to God — not just gross, but a spiritual violation. Often refers to idol worship, injustice, or practices God explicitly forbade (Leviticus 18, Proverbs 6:16-19). The Hebrew word 'toevah' carries a sense of something utterly incompatible with holiness.
Drawing the Line on Worship
Deuteronomy 23:17-18Abomination here designates cult prostitution and its earnings as categorically incompatible with God's character — the term signals not mere rule-breaking but a fundamental distortion of what worship and relationship with God are meant to be.
The Scales Don't Lie
Deuteronomy 25:13-16Abomination appears here as God's verdict on dishonest business — Moses reserves this strongest possible condemnation not for dramatic religious sins but for the everyday fraud of rigged scales and deceptive transactions.
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