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hate

Meaning of “hate”

To feel strong dislike, aversion, or enmity toward; in comparisons, to love less.

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87 occurrences85 verses26 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 24:60

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Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Amos 5:10 · retained source text

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate: and they abhorre him that speaketh vprightly.

Amos 5:15
hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Amos 5:15 · retained source text

Hate the euill, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hostes will bee gracious vnto the remnant of Ioseph.

1611 marginal notePsal.74.15. & 79.10. rom. 12.9.

Amos 5:21
¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Amos 5:21 · retained source text

¶ I hate, I despise your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies.

1611 marginal noteOr, smell your holy dayes.

1611 marginal noteIsa.1.11. ier.6.20.

Amos 6:8
The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Amos 6:8 · retained source text

The LORD God hath sworne by himselfe, saith the LORD the God of hostes, I abhorre the excellencie of Iacob, and hate his palaces: therefore wil I deliuer vp the citie, with all that is therein.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the fulnes thereof.

1611 marginal noteIere. 52.14.

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