אֵיבָה
ʼêybâh · H342 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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enmity
State of hostility towards another person or group
ExamplesGenesis 3:15 And I will make enemies Of you and the woman, And of your offspring and her Descendant; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel.”
Numbers 35:21 or if he struck him with his hand with hostility, and as a result he died, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
Numbers 35:22 ‘But if he pushed him suddenly, without hostility, or threw any object at him without malicious intent,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עוֹלָםforever 2
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שִׁיתto set, to put, to make 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מַשְׂטֵמָה masṭêmâh · H4895 · resentment, hatred
- Both lexemes are abstract nouns denoting hatred/enmity.
- שִׂנְאָה sinʼâh · H8135 · hatred, hate
- Both words are abstract nouns denoting the emotion or state of hatred or enmity, and could substitute for each other in context.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἔχθρα échthra · G2189 · enmity, being an enemy of
- Greek ἔχθρα denotes the same core concept of enmity/hostility as Hebrew אֵיבָה, representing a direct translation equivalent across the Septuagint corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hate002001002014
- אֵיבָה names enmity or hostility, as the enmity God places between the serpent and the woman's offspring.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H342. ebah אֵיבָה noun feminine enmity — ׳י Gen 3:15 Gen 3:2t.; construct אֵיבַת Eze…
אֵיבָה noun feminine enmity — ׳י Gen 3:15 Gen 3:2t.; construct אֵיבַת Eze 25:15; Eze 35:5 — enmity, personal hostility, between men Num 35:21-22, (P), between serpent & woman Gen 3:15 (J), between peoples עוֺלָם אֵיבַת Eze 25:15; Eze 35:5.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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