This verb expresses strong revulsion and loathing, originally describing the physical disgust one feels toward spoiled food but expanding to moral and spiritual abhorrence. The classical range includes being sickened by something or causing something to become abominable. In the New Testament, Paul uses it to challenge the Jew who 'abhors idols' yet commits sacrilege (Rom 2:22), while Revelation describes 'the abominable' among those excluded from the holy city (Rev 21:8). The word appears in perfect passive participle form in Revelation, emphasizing the settled, completed state of being abominable—not a temporary lapse but a fixed character.