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Like the word ‘taste’-originally a physical, then a mental term,-‘abomination’ denotes that for which God and His people have a violent distaste. It refers in the OT to the feeling: of repulsion against prohibited foods (Lev_11:10, Deu_14:3), then to everything connected with idolatry (Deu_7:25, Rom_2:22 [Gr.]).* [Note: the well-known expression, ‘abomination of desolation,’ applied to a heathen altar (Dan_12:11; cf. 1Ma_1:54, Mat_24:15, Mar_13:14). See art. ‘Abomination of Desolation’ in HDB.] Thence it acquires a moral meaning, and together with fornication stigmatizes all the immoralities of heathendom (Rev_17:4-5). Its intensest use is reserved for hypocrisy, the last offence against religion (Luk_16:15, Tit_1:16, Rev_21:27).
Sherwin Smith.