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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 Perfectוְאָיַבְתִּ֫י [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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 -

“Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you;

Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;

Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:6 -

“Your right hand, O Yahweh, is majestic in power,

Your right hand, O Yahweh, shatters the enemy.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 -

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;

My [fn]desire shall be fulfilled against them;

I will draw out my sword, my hand will dispossess them.’

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 -

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - “But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:27 - “I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies [fn]turn their backs to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:7 - ‘But you will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:8 - and five of you will pursue one hundred, and one hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - ‘And I will [fn]set My face against you so that you will be [fn]defeated before your enemies; and those who hate you will have dominion over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - ‘And I will make the land desolate, so that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 -

‘Then the land will make up for its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, and you will be in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and make up for its sabbaths.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - ‘As for those of you who may remain, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee [fn]as though from the sword, and they will fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - ‘They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength [fn]to stand up before your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - ‘But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - ‘So those of you who may remain will rot away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - I also was walking in hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make up for their iniquity,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - ‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so loathe them as to bring an end to them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - “Now when you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before Yahweh your God and be saved from your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 -

Then it happened when the ark set out that Moses said,

“Rise up, O Yahweh!

And let Your enemies be scattered,

And let those who hate You flee [fn]before You.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - “Do not go up, for Yahweh is not among you, so that you are not [fn]defeated before your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 -

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have blessed them repeatedly!”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 -

Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his [fn]hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have blessed them repeatedly these three times!

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 -

“And Edom shall be a possession,

Seir, its enemies, also will be a possession,

While Israel performs valiantly.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:21 - and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before Yahweh until He has dispossessed His enemies from before Him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or with any stone—by which one might die, yet without seeing—and it fell upon him, and he died, but he was not his enemy nor seeking his injury,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - “And Yahweh said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up and do not fight—for I am not among you—so that you are not [fn]defeated before your enemies.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - by driving out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:10 - “Now you will cross the Jordan and live in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you to inherit. And He will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 -

“If you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - “And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. Do not let your heart be faint. Do not be afraid, nor be alarmed, nor be in dread before them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:4 - for Yahweh your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - “Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall consume the spoil of your enemies which Yahweh your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 -

“If you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them over into your hands and you take them away captive,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 -

“When you go out as [fn]an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - “Since Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to give your enemies over to you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see [fn]anything indecent among you, [fn]or He will turn away from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - “Therefore it will be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance to [fn]possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 -

“Yahweh shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be [fn]defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 -

“Yahweh shall cause you to be [fn]defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will become an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:31 - “Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you and will not be returned to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:53 - “Then you shall eat the [fn]offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom Yahweh your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else remaining, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in all your gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:57 - and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her [fn]legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in your gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - “And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - “And Yahweh your God will [fn]inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 -

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,

Lest their adversaries misjudge,

Lest they say, “Our hand is [fn]triumphant,

And Yahweh has not done all this.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 -

“Indeed their rock is not like our Rock,

Even our enemies [fn]themselves judge this.


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