Word Summary
theostygēs: hating God
Original Word: θεοστυγήςTransliteration: theostygēs
Phonetic Spelling: (theh-os-too-gace')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: hating God
Meaning: hating God
Strong's Concordance
hater of God.
From theos and the base of stugnetos; hateful to God, i.e. Impious -- hater of God.
see GREEK theos
see GREEK stugnetos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2319: θεοστυγήςθεοστυγής,
θεοστυγες (
Θεός and
στυγέω; cf.
θεομισής,
θεομυσής, and the substantive,
θεοστυγία, omitted in the lexamples,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 35, 5 [ET]),
hateful to God, exceptionally impious and wicked; (
Vulg.deoodibilis):
Romans 1:30 (
Euripides, Troad. 1213 and Cyclop. 396, 602; joined with
ἄδικοι in Clement. hom. 1, 12, where just before occurs
οἱ Θεόν μισοῦντες). Cf. the full discussion of the word by Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans, i., p. 84ff; (and see
Winer's Grammar, 53f (53)).