A Scriptural Presentation of God’s Hatred
H.C. Hoeksema provides a detailed exegetical and lexicographical study of the biblical terminology for hatred, examining both Hebrew (sana) and Greek (miseo) terms as they appear in Scripture and relate to God's attribute of hatred. Drawing on standard Hebrew and Greek lexicons, Hoeksema clarifies the semantic range of these terms and addresses interpretive questions about how divine hatred is properly understood in passages concerning both persons and wickedness.
Prof. Homer C. Hoeksema (first published in the Protestant Reformed Theological Journal) There are, in the main, two terms that are translated by the word “hate” in Scripture. The Old Testament word is sana. The Greek term is miseo. The lexicons do not shed much additional light on the meaning of this word either in the Hebrew or in the Greek. In Gesenius’ Hebrew-English Lexicon to the Old Testament we find the following: … TO HATE, whether persons, Ps.5:6; 31:7; Deut. 22:13; II Sam. 13:15,...