Detestable things (Hastings' Dictionary)

The tr" in AV and RV of D'jnpif* in Jer 16'«, Ezk 5" T" IP"-" 37^, the reference being either to actual idols or to objects connected with idolatry. Elsewhere the word is tr"" Abomination (see the references above, p. 12, —adding Nah 3« [AV, RV 'abominable filtli J, Dn 9" IP' 12'>, 2 Ch 15«), which usually represents n^i'in (see p. 11) ; but as in the first five passages cited both Heb. words occur together, ' detestable things ' is adopted for o'sipfi for the sake of dls tinction.

It would have conduced to accuracy and clearness, had it been adopted uniformly. The cognate verb ypv, to treat as detestable, is rendered ' to detest ' in Dt 7^', but unfortunately ' to have in abomination' in Lv 11"'", and 'to make abomin- able' (for 'make detestable') in Lv U-" 202= (in these four passages, in connexion with x;>^, the technical term for the flesh of prohibited animals. See Abomination, No. 3). In 2 Mac 5*^ ' that detestable ringleader ' (Apollonius) stands for Thv /j.

vjdpxv i RV ' lord of pollutions,' with marg. ' Gr. Mysarch, which may also mean ruler of the Mysians.' The tr- of the text is, no doubt, correct (similarly Grimm, Rawl., Zockler : Pesh. ' ruler of all the unclean ') ; the term is evidently one of disparagement, framed on the model of titles such as iSvapxt^, arparoTreSdpxrift etc. S. R. Driver.