μισέω miseō

Greek word for “to hate” · Strong’s G3404 · used 40 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

μισέω, -ῶ; to hate: with accusative of person(s) 24:10, 6:22, 27 19:14, 15:18-19, 23-26 17:14, Jn 2:11 Jn 3:13 Jn 3:15 Jn 4:20;

How it is translated

Glosses given for miseō in context, with how often each is used:

• hated 10
• hating 10
• hates 7
• will hate 5
• hate 4
• may hate 2
• has hated 1
• have hated 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 15 (5), Matthew 24 (2), Luke 6 (2), 1 John 2 (2), 1 John 3 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 6 (1), Matthew 10 (1), Mark 13 (1), Luke 1 (1)

Forms

• μισεῖ 7
• μισῶν 5
• μισούμενοι 4
• μισήσει 2
• μισήσουσιν 2
• ἐμίσησεν 2
• μισῶ 2
• μισοῦντες 2
• μισήσεις 1
• μισούντων 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with miseō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀγαπάω agapaō “to love” 7
• κόσμος kosmos “world” 6
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 6
• δύναμαι dunamai “be able” 5
• ὄνομα onoma “name” 5
• δουλεύω douleuō “be a slave” 3
• ἐχθρός echthros “enemy” 3
• ἔργον ergon “work” 4
• μαμμωνᾶς mammōnas “wealth” 2
• ἀντέχω antechō “to cling to” 2
• ὑπό hupo “by/under” 4
• οὐδείς oudeis “none” 4

Key verses

The verses using miseō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 6:24 — No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God…
• Matthew 10:22 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
• Matthew 24:9 — Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
• Luke 6:22 — Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the…
• Luke 14:26 — If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my…
• John 7:7 — The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
• John 15:18 — If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• John 15:24 — If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one…
• Hebrews 1:9 — Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• Revelation 17:16 — And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her…
• Revelation 18:2 — And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.