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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)
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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 15 times in 15 verses in 'Lam' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. H341

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies H341 prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 - Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy H341 hath magnified himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 - For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy H341 prevailed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:21 - They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies H341 have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, H341 and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 - He hath bent his bow like an enemy: H341 he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy: H341 he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7 - The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy H341 the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16 - All thine enemies H341 have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17 - The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy H341 to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22 - Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy H341 consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:46 - All our enemies H341 have opened their mouths against us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 - Mine enemies H341 chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy H341 should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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