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Lexicon :: Strong's G2190 - echthros

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ἐχθρός
Transliteration
echthros (Key)
Pronunciation
ech-thros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary echtho (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:811,285

Strong’s Definitions

ἐχθρός echthrós, ech-thros'; from a primary ἔχθω échthō (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile); usually as a noun, an adversary (especially Satan):—enemy, foe.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's G2190 in the following manner: enemy (30x), foe (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's G2190 in the following manner: enemy (30x), foe (2x).

  1. hated, odious, hateful

  2. hostile, hating, and opposing another

    1. used of men as at enmity with God by their sin

      1. opposing (God) in the mind

      2. a man that is hostile

      3. a certain enemy

      4. the hostile one

      5. the devil who is the most bitter enemy of the divine government

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐχθρός echthrós, ech-thros'; from a primary ἔχθω échthō (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile); usually as a noun, an adversary (especially Satan):—enemy, foe.
STRONGS G2190:
ἐχθρός, ἔχθρα, ἐχθρόν (ἔχθος hatred); the Sept. numberless times for אויֵב, also for צַר, several times for שׂונֵא and מְשַׂנֵּא, a hater;
1. passively, hated, odious, hateful (in Homer only in this sense): Romans 11:28 (opposed to ἀγαπητός).
2. actively, hostile, hating and opposing another: 1 Corinthians 15:25; 2 Thessalonians 3:15; with the genitive of the person hated or opposed, James 4:4 Lachmann; Galatians 4:16, cf. Meyer or Wieseler on the latter passage used of men as at enmity with God by their sin: Romans 5:10 (cf. Romans 8:7; Colossians 1:21; James 4:4) (but many take ἐχθρός here (as in Romans 11:28, see 1 above) passively; cf. Meyer); τῇ διάνοια, opposing (God) in the mind, Colossians 1:21; ἐχθρός ἄνθρωπος, a man that is hostile, a certain enemy, Matthew 13:28; ὁ ἐχθρός, the hostile one (well known to you), i. e. κατ' ἐξοχήν the devil, the most bitter enemy of the divine government: Luke 10:19, cf. Matthew 13:39 (and ecclesiastical writings). ὁ ἐχθρός (and ἐχθρός) substantively, enemy (so the word, whether adjective or a substantive, is translated in A. V., except twice (R. V. once) foe: ἔσχατος ἐχθρός, 1 Corinthians 15:26): with the genitive of the person to whom one is hostile, Matthew 5:43; Matthew 10:36; Matthew 13:25; Luke 1:(Luke 1:71),Luke 1:74; Luke 6:27,35; 19:27,43; Romans 12:20; Revelation 11:5, 12; in the words of Psalm 109:1 (Ps. 110:1), quoted in Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; 1 Corinthians 15:25 (L brackets; others omit the genitive (see above)); Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 10:13. with the genitive of the thing: Acts 13:10; τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, who given up to their evil passions evade the obligations imposed upon them by the death of Christ, Philippians 3:18.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
109:1; 110:1
Matthew
5:43; 10:36; 13:25; 13:28; 13:39; 22:44
Mark
12:36
Luke
1; 1:71; 1:74; 6:27; 6:35; 10:19; 19:27; 19:43; 20:43
Acts
2:35; 13:10
Romans
5:10; 8:7; 11:28; 11:28; 12:20
1 Corinthians
15:25; 15:25; 15:26
Galatians
4:16
Philippians
3:18
Colossians
1:21; 1:21
2 Thessalonians
3:15
Hebrews
1:13; 10:13
James
4:4; 4:4
Revelation
11:5; 11:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2190 matches the Greek ἐχθρός (echthros),
which occurs 332 times in 320 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 14:20–Deu 32:31)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:20 - and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 - “Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
your father’s sons shall bow down before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:6 - Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power,
your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:7 - You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:8 - Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - “Then the land shall enjoy[fn] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 - And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - God brings him out of Egypt
and is for him like the horns of the wild ox;
he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries,
and shall break their bones in pieces
and pierce them through with his arrows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 - Edom shall be dispossessed;
Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed.
Israel is doing valiantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:21 - and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:10 - But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:4 - for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 - “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - “When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:53

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:55

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:57

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 - had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the LORD who did all this.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their rock is not as our Rock;
our enemies are by themselves.

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