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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 32 times in 32 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:43 - “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44 - But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:36 - And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:25 - but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds[fn] among the wheat and went away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:28 - He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:39

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:39 - and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:44 - “‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:36 - David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared,
“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:71

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:71 - that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:74

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:74 - that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:27 - “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:19 - Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:27 - But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:43 - For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:43 - until I make your enemies your footstool.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:35 - until I make your enemies your footstool.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:10 - and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:10 - For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 - As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:20 - To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:25 - For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:26 - The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:16 - Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:18 - For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:21 - And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:15 - Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:13 - And to which of the angels has he ever said,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:13 - waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - You adulterous people![fn] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:5 - And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:12 - Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.
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