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Lexicon :: Strong's H341 - 'ōyēḇ

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אֹיֵב
Transliteration
'ōyēḇ
Pronunciation
o-yabe'
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Part of Speech
substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
Active participle of אָיַב (H340)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 78

Strong’s Definitions

אֹיֵב ʼôyêb, o-yabe'; or (fully) אוֹיֵב ʼôwyêb; active participle of H340; hating; an adversary:—enemy, foe.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 282x

The KJV translates Strong's H341 in the following manner: enemy(s) (280x), foes (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 282x
The KJV translates Strong's H341 in the following manner: enemy(s) (280x), foes (2x).

  1. (Qal) enemy

    1. personal

    2. national

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֹיֵב ʼôyêb, o-yabe'; or (fully) אוֹיֵב ʼôwyêb; active participle of H340; hating; an adversary:—enemy, foe.
STRONGS H341: Abbreviations
[אָיַב] 283 verb be hostile to (Assyrian aibu (see Dlw), enemy = אֹיֵב) —
Qal Perfect † וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י [H340 Exodus 23:22]; Participle אוֺיֵב (אֹיֵב) Exodus 15:6 +; suffix (אוֺיְבִי)אֹיְבִי) 2 Samuel 22:18 = Psalm 18:18 [Psalm 18:17] +; feminine suffix אֹיַבְתִּי Micah 7:8, 10; אֹיִבְךָ Exodus 23:4 +, etc.; plural אֹויְבִים Psalm 68:24 [Psalm 68:23]; Psalm 127:5; אֹיְבִים Psalm 139:22, etc.; — be hostile to, treat as enemy [H340 Exodus 23:22] (E, Cov't code) וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י אֶת־אֹיְבֶיךָ וְצַרְתִּ֫י אֶת־צֹרְרֶיךָ (subject י׳); elsewhere Participle 1 Samuel 18:29 וַיְהִי שָׁאוּל אֹיֵב אֶת־דָּוִד; usually as substantive & mostly suffix; enemy, of personal foe Exodus 23:4 (E || שׂנֵא Exodus 23:5) Numbers 35:23 (P) 1 Samuel 19:17 (compare 1 Samuel 18:29) 1 Samuel 24:5 [1 Samuel 24:4]; 1 Samuel 24:20 [1Samuel 24:19]; 2 Samuel 4:8; 1 Kings 21:20; Job 27:7; Psalm 54:9 [Psalm 54:7]; Psalm 55:13 [Psalm 55:12] (|| מְשַׂנֵּא; opposed to אַלּוּף, מְיֻדָּע Psalm 55:14 [Psalm 55:13]) Micah 2:8; Proverbs 16:7; Proverbs 24:17 +; in simile Jeremiah 30:14 (מַכַּת אוֺיֵב); of public national enemy, singular Judges 16:23, 24; collective Exodus 15:6,9; Deuteronomy 33:27; Nahum 3:11; 2 Chronicles 6:24 +; personified Micah 7:8, 10; more often plural [H340 Exodus 23:22] (E) Leviticus 26:7f (H) Numbers 10:9 (P) Deuteronomy 1:42; Deuteronomy 6:19; Jeremiah 15:9; Jeremiah 34:20, 21 +; of enemies of God, as protector of his people Numbers 10:35 (J) Judges 5:31; 1 Samuel 30:26; 2 Samuel 18:19; Psalm 66:3; Psalm 68:1; Psalm 68:22 [Psalm 68:21]; Nahum 1:2, 8; Isaiah 66:6 +; as morally supreme Job 13:24; Job 33:10; Psalm 37:20; Psalm 92:10 [Psalm 92:9] (twice in verse) +; of God as enemy of rebellious people Isaiah 63:10, in simile Lamentations 2:4, 5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

15:6; 15:6; 15:9; 23:4; 23:4; 23:5

Leviticus

26:7

Numbers

10:9; 10:35; 35:23

Deuteronomy

1:42; 6:19; 33:27

Judges

5:31; 16:23; 16:24

1 Samuel

18:29; 18:29; 19:17; 24:4; 24:19; 30:26

2 Samuel

4:8; 18:19; 22:18

1 Kings

21:20

2 Chronicles

6:24

Job

13:24; 27:7; 33:10

Psalms

18:17; 37:20; 54:7; 55:12; 55:13; 66:3; 68:1; 68:21; 68:23; 92:9; 127:5; 139:22

Proverbs

16:7; 24:17

Isaiah

63:10; 66:6

Jeremiah

15:9; 30:14; 34:20; 34:21

Lamentations

2:4; 2:5

Micah

2:8; 7:8; 7:8; 7:10; 7:10

Nahum

1:2; 1:8; 3:11

H341

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Strong's Number H341 matches the Hebrew אֹיֵב ('ōyēḇ),
which occurs 284 times in 275 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 22:17–Deu 32:31)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 - Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father's sons will bow down before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:6 - Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power, your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - The enemy said, 'I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - "If you encounter your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:27 - "I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:7 - You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - "'Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - "'As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - "'As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, "Rise up, O LORD! May your enemies be scattered, and may 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, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 - Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless them these three times!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 - Edom will be a possession, Seir, his enemies, will also be a possession; but Israel will act valiantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:21 - and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - But the LORD told me: "Tell them this: 'Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:10 - When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - "Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:4 - for the LORD your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city - all its plunder - you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that 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 do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - For the LORD your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does 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 - So when the LORD your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven - do not forget!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - "The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:53

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:55

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - He will withhold from all of them his children's flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:57

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 - But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say, "Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!"'

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

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