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Abomination - This word is used, # To express the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Gen. 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice, holding it unlawful to eat or drink with foreigners ( John 18:28; Acts 10:28; 11:3).

1. Every shepherd was "an abomination" unto the Egyptians ( Gen. 46:34). This aversion to shepherds, such as the Hebrews, arose probably from the fact that Lower and Middle Egypt had formerly been held in oppressive subjection by a tribe of nomad shepherds (the Hyksos), who had only recently been expelled, and partly also perhaps from this other fact that the Egyptians detested the lawless habits of these wandering shepherds.
2. Pharaoh was so moved by the fourth plague , that while he refused the demand of Moses, he offered a compromise, granting to the Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer their sacrifices in Egypt. This permission could not be accepted, because Moses said they would have to sacrifice "the abomination of the Egyptians" ( Ex. 8:26); i.e., the cow or ox, which all the Egyptians held as sacred, and which they regarded it as sacrilegious to kill.
3. Daniel (11:31), in that section of his prophecies which is generally interpreted as referring to the fearful calamities that were to fall on the Jews in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, says, "And they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." Antiochus Epiphanes caused an altar to be erected on the altar of burnt-offering, on which sacrifices were offered to Jupiter Olympus. (Comp. 1 Macc. 1:57). This was the abomination of the desolationA reference found in the Bible book Daniel, Matthew, and Mark. It interpretation is taken in various ways. of Jerusalem. The same language is employed in Dan. 9:27 (comp. Matt.The name Matthew comes from Hebrew Mattay a short form of Hebrew Mattanyhu/Mattayyh which is itself a variation of Hebrew Nanyh which means "gift of the LORD". Gospel of Matthew Book of the Bible Matthew the Evangelist Author of the book of the Bible Matt 24:15), where the reference is probably to the image-crowned standards which the Romans set up at the east gate of the temple ( A.D. 70Alternate uses, see Number 70 Centuries: 1st century BC 1st century 2nd century Decades: 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 120s Years: 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Events The building of the Colosseum starts (approximate date). Pliny the Elder), and to which they paid idolatrous honours. "Almost the entire religion of the Roman camp consisted in worshipping the ensign, swearing by the ensign, and in preferring the ensign before all other gods." These ensigns were an "abomination" to the Jews, the "abomination of desolation."
4. This word is also used symbolically of sin in general ( Isa.Isaiah or Yeshayahu "Salvation of/is the LORD", Standard Hebrew Yšayahu Tiberian Hebrew Yšaayh was the son of Amoz, and commonly considered the author of the Book of Isaiah. He was apparently of humble rank (Isa. Isaiah was married to a woman 66:3); an idol (44:19).
5. Some Protestant groups apply the word to the ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

1. In relation to the fictional world of Dune created by Frank Herbert in his novels of the same name, an 'abomination' is a fetus exposed to the 'spice agony', and therefore exposed to all the ancestral race memories before birth. This exposure makes the child when born vulnerable to being possessed by one of thier ancestors. In Dune, the unborn child of Lady Jessica Atriedes, Princess Alia is made an abomination when Jessica undergoes the 'spice agony' ritual to become Sayyadina for the Fremen Seitch lead by Stilgar, and Alia is in later life possessed by the ancestral presence of her maternal grandfather, the evil Duke Vladimir Harkonnen.