μισέω

μισέω — miséō

μισέω, μισῶ; imperfect ἐμίσουν; future μισήσω; 1 aorist ἐμίσησα; perfect μεμίσηκα; passive, present participle μισουμενος; perfect participle μεμισημενος (Rev 18:2); the Sept. for שָׂנֵא; (from Homer down); to hate, pursue with hatred, detest; passive to be hated, detested: τινα, Mat 5:43 and Rec. in;; Luk 1:71; Luk 6:22; Luk 6:27; Luk 19:14; Joh 7:7; Joh 15:18 ff,;; Tit 3:3; 1Jn 2:9;; Rev 17:16; passive, Mat 10:22; Mat 24:9; (Mar 13:13); Luk 21:17; τί: Joh 3:20; Rev 7:15; Eph 5:29; Heb 1:9; Jud 1:23; Rev 2:6 and Rec. in 15; passive Rev 18:2. Not a few interpreters have attributed to μισεῖν in Gen 29:31 (cf. Gen 29:30); Deu 21:15; Mat 6:24; Luk 14:26; Luk 16:13; (Joh 12:25); Rom 9:13, the signification to love less, to postpone in love or esteem, to slight, through oversight of the circumstance that 'the Orientals, in accordance with their greater excitability, are accustomed both to feel and to profess love and hate where we Occidentals, with our cooler temperament, feel and express nothing more than interest in, or disregard and indifference to a thing'; Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans, ii., p. 304; cf. Rückert, Magazin f. Exegese u. Theologie des N. T., p. 27ff