שְׂנֵא
sᵉnêʼ · H8131 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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enemy
Person who experiences hostily towards someone else and acts accordingly
ExamplesDaniel 4:19 “Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, ‘Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.’ Belteshazzar replied, ‘My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries!
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֵלֶםdream 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
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 1 word
- תַּעָב taʻâb · H8581 · to abhor, to act abominably
- Both words express strong negative emotion and rejection; hate and abhor are near-synonyms in ordinary usage.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Hate002001002014
- Daniel 4:19 recounts that Belteshazzar wishes "the dream applied to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries."
- Enemies001001003002
- This Enemies code is inherited from the shared listing with שָׂנֵא (sânêʼ, H8130) (שָׂנֵא, 'enemy, foe'); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested 'hate' (verb) sense.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8131. sena [שְׂנָא] verb hate (סְנָא ᵑ7, Syriac ; see Biblical Hebrew שָׂנֵא); — Pe`al…
[שְׂנָא] verb hate (סְנָא ᵑ7, Syriac ; see Biblical Hebrew שָׂנֵא); —
Pe`al Participle plural suffix שׂנאיך Kt, שָֽׂנְאָךְ Qr (K§ 53, 2, Anm. b)) Dan 4:16 = thy foes (Biblical Hebrew 3, MI4, Sabean).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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