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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 BoxLam 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 - Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 - Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 - “This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:21 - “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - In fierce anger he has cut off every horn[fn][fn] of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 - Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 - The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7 - The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed festival.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16 - All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:17 - The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn[fn] of your foes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22 - “As you summon to a feast day, so you summoned against me terrors on every side. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; those I cared for and reared my enemy has destroyed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:46

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 - Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the peoples of the world, that enemies and foes could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
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