KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A person, thing, act, practice, creature, or condition regarded as detestable or loathsome. Sense 2: An idol or idolatrous thing so regarded.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 43:32
Complete exact-word concordance
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
And armes shal stand on his part, and they shall pollute the Sanctuarie of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shal place the abomination that maketh desolate.
1611 marginal noteOr, astonisheth.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
And from the time that the dayly sacrifice shalbe taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set vp, there shalbe a thousand two hundred and ninetie dayes.
1611 marginal noteHebr. to set vp the abomination, &c.
1611 marginal noteOr, astonisheth.
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Historical English dictionary sources
An object that excites loathing; hence, an idol.
