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βδελύσσομαι , Att. βδελυ?́ρ-ττομαι , fut.
A.“-ύξομαι” Hp.Mul.1.39,41 (Act. βδελύξειν wrongly cited by Erot.): aor. “ἐβδελύχθην” Ar.V.792, Plu. Alex.57, etc.; later “ἐβδελυξάμην” LXX Ge. 26.20, al., J.BJ6.2.10, Jul. Or.7.210d:—feel a loathing for food, Hp Il. cc.; to be sick, Ar.V. 792.
2. c. acc., feel a loathing at, Id.Ach.586, LXX l. c., al., Plu. Alex.57; β. [τραγῳδίας] Jul. l.c.; ὠμοφαγίαν ib.6.193c: “β. ἀπό τινων” LXX Ex.1.12.
II. later causal, in Act., cause to stink, make loathsome or abominable, fut. “-ύξω” LXX Le.20.25: aor. ἐβδέλυξα ib.Ex. 5.21:—Med. and Pass., to be loathsome, fut. -υχθήσομαι ib.Si.20.8: aor. -ύχθην ib.Ps. 13(14).1: pf. ἐβδέλυγμαι ib.Pr.8.7; οἱ ἐβδελυγμένοι the abominable (in ref. to the use of βδέλυγμα as an idol), Apoc. 21.8:—this pf. in causal sense, LXX Pr.28.9. (Cf. βδέω.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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