Strong's Concordance
theostugés: hating God
Original Word: θεοστυγής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: theostugés
Phonetic Spelling: (theh-os-too-gace')
Short Definition: hating God, hateful to God
Definition: hating God, hateful to God.
HELPS Word-studies
2319 theostygḗs(a substantival adjective, derived from 2316 /theós, "God" and stygeō, "abhor") – properly, to abhor God (His will). This rare term refers to people who totally turn against the Lord (used only in Ro 1:30).
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)).