miseō · hate

What it means

miseō (μισέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hate”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To feel deep aversion toward someone or something and want it away.
2. To love one less than another.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hate ×13
• hated ×13
• hates ×12
• hating ×2

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Mark×1
• Luke×7
• John×12
• Romans×2
• Ephesians×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 John×5
• Jude×1
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 5:43

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

• Matthew 6:24

  “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold on to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

• Matthew 10:22

  And you will be hated by all because of my name; but the one who endures to the end, this one will be saved.

• Matthew 24:9

  Then they will hand you over to affliction and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

• Matthew 24:10

  And then many will fall away, and they will hand one another over and hate one another.

• Mark 13:13

  And you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end, this one will be saved.

• Luke 1:71

  salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

• Luke 6:22

  Happy are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

• Luke 6:27

  But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

• Luke 14:26

  “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life as well, he cannot be my disciple.

• Luke 16:13

  No household servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold on to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

• Luke 19:14

  But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

• Luke 21:17

  and you will be hated by all because of my name.

• John 3:20

  For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.

• John 7:7

  The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

• John 12:25

  Whoever holds his life dear loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

• John 15:18

  If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

• John 15:19

  If you were of the world, the world would hold dear its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

• John 15:23

  Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

• John 15:24

  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have had sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

• John 15:25

  But this is so that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

• John 17:14

  I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

• Romans 7:15

  For what I do I do not understand; for what I want, this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

• Romans 9:13

  As it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

• Ephesians 5:29

  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Messiah does the assembly,

• Titus 3:3

  For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

• Hebrews 1:9

  You loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, your God, anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.

• 1 John 2:9

  Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

• 1 John 2:11

  But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

• 1 John 3:13

  Do not be amazed, brothers, if the world hates you.

• 1 John 3:15

  Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

• 1 John 4:20

  If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

• Jude 1:23

  save others by snatching them out of the fire; and on others have mercy with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh.

• Revelation 2:6

  But you have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

• Revelation 17:16

  And the ten horns that you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her up with fire.

• Revelation 18:2

  And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! And she has become a dwelling place of demons and a haunt of every unclean spirit, and a haunt of every unclean bird, and a haunt of every unclean and hated beast,

And 4 more times.