In the bible, we have 8 Hebrew words translated as “abomination” or something similar to it. Majority of the synonyms used in place of “abomination” in the bible are: disgusting, abhorrent, filthy, offensive, to detest, to pollute, to enrage, to stink. Below is a list of abominations in the bible.
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Abominations In The Bible (A-Z)
| S/N | Abominations In The Bible | Bible Reference |
| 1 | Meat eaten on the 3rd day | (Lev 7:18)(Lev 19:7) |
| 2 | Eating anything in the seas or rivers that does not have fins or scales. Even the carcasses of those not having fins or scales are an abomination | (Lev 11:10-12) |
| 3 | Eating certain unclean birds | (Lev 11:13-19) |
| 4 | Eating certain winged insects that walk on all fours | (Lev 11:20) |
| 5 | Eating any creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth | (Lev 11:41-43) |
| 6 | Fourteen verses of people that God says not to have sex with. [(Lev 18:29-30 tells us these are abominations | (Lev 18:6-18,20) |
| 7 | No sex with a woman during her period | (Lev 18:19) |
| 8 | A child shall not be burned in sacrifice to Molech | (Lev 18:21) |
| 9 | Lying with a man as one lies with a woman | (Lev 18:22)(Lev 20:13) |
| 10 | No sex with an animal | (Lev 18:23) |
| 11 | The gold and silver found on idols | (Deut 7:25) |
| 12 | Idols | (Deut 7:26)(Deut 27:15)(Jer 32:34)(2 Chr 15:8)(Isa 44:19) |
| 13 | The way pagan nations worshipped their gods | (Deut 12:31) |
| 14 | Anyone who says to worship other gods | (Deut 13:13-14) |
| 15 | A list of “abominable” foods | (Deut 14:3-21) |
| 16 | Sacrificing an ox or sheep that has a blemish | (Deut 17:1) |
| 17 | Worshipping other gods | (Deut 17:4) |
| 18 | Anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination, interprets omens, a witch, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, a medium, a spiritist, a necromancer | (Deut 18:10-12) |
| 19 | Wearing clothing of the opposite sex | (Deut 22:5) |
| 20 | The earnings of a male or female prostitute | (Deut 23:18) |
| 21 | A man divorcing a wife, then trying to remarry her after she has remarried someone else | (Deut 24:1-4) |
| 23 | Having dishonest weights and measures | (Deut 25:13-16)(Prov 20:10,23) |
| 24 | Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Milcom the god of the Ammonites, Chemosh, the god of Moab, Molech, the god of Ammon | (1 Kin 11:5,7)(2 Kin 23:13) |
| 25 | Following idols | (1 Kin 21:26) |
| 26 | The devious | (Prov 3:32) |
| 27 | Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness, one who sows discord among brothers | (Prov 6:16-19) |
| 28 | A false balance | (Prov 11:1) |
| 29 | A perverse heart | (Prov 11:20) |
| 30 | Lying lips | (Prov 12:22) |
| 31 | The sacrifice of the wicked | (Prov 15:8)(Prov 21:27) |
| 32 | The way of the wicked | (Prov 15:9) |
| 33 | The thoughts of the wicked | (Prov 15:26) |
| 34 | Everyone that is proud in heart | (Prov 16:5) |
| 35 | He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just | (Prov 17:15) |
| 36 | The prayer of one who turns his ear away from hearing the law | (Prov 28:9) |
| 37 | The incense of rebelling Judah and Jerusalem | (Isa 1:13) |
| 38 | Those who eat swine’s flesh, mice, and other abominable things | (Isa 66:17) |
| 39 | Sacrificing a son or daughter in the fire | (Jer 32:35)(2 Kin 16:3)(2 Chr 28:3) |
| 40 | Eating at mountain shrines, defiling a neighbor’s wife, oppressing the poor and needy, robbery, not restoring a pledge, lifting up eyes to idols and committing abomination, lending money on interest and taking increase | (Eze 18:11-13) |
| 41 | Scant measures | (Mic 6:10) |
| 42 | Marrying the daughter of a foreign god | (Mal 2:11) |
| 43 | That which is esteemed among men | (Lk 16:15) |
