Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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Understanding Series
W. H. Bellinger, Jr.
... , when corpses lie unburied in unclean places, in contact with idols. The term in verse 30 for incense “altars” (khamman) is an odd and rare word, but some association with idolatry appears to be in view. The picture of this fifth calamity is particularly abhorrent. The consequence in verse 31 is especially striking in the context of Leviticus. So much of Leviticus is given to producing a pleasing aroma of your offerings, to the functioning of the sanctuary, and to the building up of the land and its ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... props of the Canaanite fertility cult (cf. 7:5; 12:3). Given that they were to be destroyed at Canaanite shrines, the very idea that they could be planted or erected beside the altar you build to the LORD your God was abhorrent. It would be unacceptable syncretism and incompatible with covenant loyalty (hates is covenant vocabulary, as is its opposite, “loves”; it means that Yahweh could enter into no relationship with, make no accommodation to, such symbols of other gods). Precisely such syncretism ...
53. Law Courts
Deuteronomy 16:18-20
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... props of the Canaanite fertility cult (cf. 7:5; 12:3). Given that they were to be destroyed at Canaanite shrines, the very idea that they could be planted or erected beside the altar you build to the LORD your God was abhorrent. It would be unacceptable syncretism and incompatible with covenant loyalty (hates is covenant vocabulary, as is its opposite, “loves”; it means that Yahweh could enter into no relationship with, make no accommodation to, such symbols of other gods). Precisely such syncretism ...
54. A Piggy Pudding
Matthew 8:28-34
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... disciple. Jesus takes us to some very uncomfortable places. Jesus asks us to accompany Him to some not just unknown but dangerous vistas. Jesus asks us to stand by Him, as He works His miracles on those who are not just ill, but abhorrent, violent, pagan, dirty, insulting, and completely different from who you are. Following Jesus into those places can be disgusting and frightening, even terrifying sometimes. But whenever you follow Jesus into an unknown place, you can be sure that you will emerge from the ...
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.
Old saying
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
58. Living Bread
John 6:51-58
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... everything we thought we knew and every assumption we ever made or accepted. Jesus puts this all in plain language when he says that “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you.” Nothing was more abhorrent to first century Jews than breaking the dietary restrictions set down in Leviticus and chief among those was that no human was ever to drink blood of any kind or eat human flesh under any circumstances. Even to use human flesh and blood as a metaphor, as ...
59. For Men Only?
Mark 10:2-16
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Frank Ramirez
... of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house (or the second man who married her dies); her first husband, who sent her away, is not permitted to take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that would be abhorrent to the Lord, and you shall not bring guilt on the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession. Some commentators suggest that this passage in its entirety is stating that men could not divorce their wives, marry another, then divorce that wife and ...
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