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Enemy (134 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:43 "You have heard that it was said,'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:28 "He said to them,'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him,'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 13:10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 12:20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 4:16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Thessalonians 3:15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 5:14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling. (See NAS RSV NIV)

James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (See NIV)

Genesis 14:11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. (See RSV)

Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said,'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 23:22 But if you indeed 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. (KJV DBY WBS NIV)

Numbers 24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; while Israel doeth valiantly. (See NIV)

Numbers 35:23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemy, and hast seen horse and chariot -- a people more numerous than thou -- thou art not afraid of them, for Jehovah thy God 'is' with thee, who is bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt; (YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. (See JPS)

Deuteronomy 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee. (See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say,'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said,'Destroy!' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:28 And he said unto them: 'Follow after me; for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.' And they went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over. (See NIV)

Judges 16:23 The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 16:24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 2:32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. (KJV WBS)

1 Samuel 18:29 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 19:17 Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me,'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 24:4 The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you,'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 24:19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? (KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 4:8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:33 "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:44 "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Kings 8:46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 21:20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:24 If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:36 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 25:8 But if you will go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 26:13 Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezra 8:31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Esther 3:10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (KJV WBS)

Esther 7:6 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 8:1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 9:10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 9:24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)

Job 6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? (KJV WBS NIV)

Job 13:24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. (KJV WBS)

Job 19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries. (See NAS)

Job 27:7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 31:29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him; (See NAS NIV)

Job 33:10 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) (KJV WBS RSV)

Psalms 7:5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 13:4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 31:8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 41:11 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 42:9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 43:2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. (KJV WBS NIV)

Psalms 44:16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 55:12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hid myself from him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 60:11 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain. (See NIV)

Psalms 61:3 For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 64:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 74:10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 78:42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. (KJV WBS)

Psalms 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. (KJV WBS NIV)

Psalms 89:22 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 106:10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; (KJV WBS)

Psalms 108:12 Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. (WEB NIV)

Psalms 143:3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 24:17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 29:24 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify. (WEB NIV)

Isaiah 22:3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away. (See NIV)

Isaiah 33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: 'the enemy' hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man. (ASV)

Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. (KJV WBS)

Continued...

Thesaurus
Enemy's (8 Occurrences)
...Enemy's (8 Occurrences). Exodus 23:4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey
going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. ...
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Enemy (134 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury
of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to ...
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Foe (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against
another; an enemy. 2. (n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army. ...
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Gloat (11 Occurrences)
... which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;
He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice ...
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Intreaty (1 Occurrence)
... Jeremiah 15:11 reads, "I will cause the enemy to make supplication" (hiphga'ti),
instead, the King James Version "I will cause the enemy to entreat" (the ...
/i/intreaty.htm - 8k

Intreat (13 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 15:11 reads, "I will cause the enemy to make supplication" (hiphga'ti),
instead, the King James Version "I will cause the enemy to entreat" (the ...
/i/intreat.htm - 12k

Traitor (4 Occurrences)
... n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason;
one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up ...
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Triumphed (8 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say,'Our hand is exalted ...
/t/triumphed.htm - 9k

Revenge (13 Occurrences)
... Read with the Revised Version (British and American) "from the head of the leaders
of the enemy" or the Revised Version margin "the hairy head of the enemy...
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Retreat (10 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from
any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced ...
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Greek
2190. echthros -- hostile
... hostile. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: echthros Phonetic Spelling:
(ech-thros') Short Definition: hated, hostile, an enemy Definition: hated ...
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2189. echthra -- yesterday
... enmity, hostility, alienation. Cognate: 2189 -- properly, enemy (hatred,
hostility); enmity. See 2190 (). enmity, hatred. Feminine of ...
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480. antikeimai -- to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand
... Word Origin from anti and keimai Definition to lie opposite, ie oppose, withstand
NASB Word Usage adversaries (1), contrary (1), enemy (1), opponents (3 ...
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865. aphilagathos -- without love of good
... and 5358 , "a friend, lover of what is good") -- properly, describing someone who
is hostile to the things of God -- ie an active opponent (enemy) of God's ...
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500. antichristos -- antichrist, (one who opposes Christ)
... Spelling: (an-tee'-khris-tos) Short Definition: antichrist Definition: antichrist,
either one who puts himself in the place of, or the enemy (opponent) of the ...
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444. anthropos -- a man, human, mankind
... Word Origin probably from aner and ops (eye, face) Definition a man, human, mankind
NASB Word Usage any (1), anyone (1), child (1), enemy* (1), everyone* (1 ...
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2205. zelos -- to have warmth of feeling for or against, to be ...
... figuratively) "zeal" (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy,
as of a husband (figuratively, of God), or an enemy, malice) -- emulation ...
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2375. thureos -- a shield
... in the believer. This always extinguishes (takes the fire out of) the
missals of the enemy (cf. Ro 10:17, Gk text). Word Origin ...
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476. antidikos -- an opponent, adversary
... adversary. From anti and dike; an opponent (in a lawsuit); specially, Satan (as
the arch-enemy) -- adversary. see GREEK anti. see GREEK dike. ...
/greek/476.htm - 8k

4273. prodotes -- a betrayer
... betrayer, traitor. From prodidomi (in the sense of giving forward into another's
(the enemy's) hands); a surrender -- betrayer, traitor. see GREEK prodidomi. ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ENEMY

en'-e-mi ('oyebh, tsar, tsar; echthros):

"Enemy," "enemies," are frequent words in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word most often so translated is 'oyebh, meaning perhaps literally, "one who hates"; very frequent in the Psalms, eg. 3:7; 6:10; 7:05; 8:02; 9:3, 1; 13:2, where the cry is often for deliverance from enemies. Another word for "enemy," found chiefly in the poetical books, is tsar, or tsar, "distresser," "straitener" (Numbers 10:9 Job 16:9 Psalm 27:2, 12, the Revised Version (British and American) "adversary," etc.); also tsarar (Esther 3:10 Psalm 8:2; Psalm 10:5 the King James Version, etc.). Other words are `ar, "one awake" (1 Samuel 28:16 the King James Version; Daniel 4:19 the King James Version); sane', perhaps, "to be sharp or bite" (Exodus 1:10 Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 27:6); sharar, "to watch" (Psalm 5:8; Psalm 27:11), and qum, "to stand up," or "withstand" (Exodus 32:25).

In the New Testament echthros, "enemy," "opponent," is the only word translated "enemy" (Matthew 5:43, 14 Mark 12:36 Luke 1:71, 74, etc.; Romans 5:10; Romans 11:28, etc.), once with anthropos ("a man"), joined to echthros (Matthew 13:28).

In the Revised Version (British and American) "adversary" is frequently substituted for "enemy" (Numbers 24:8 Deuteronomy 32:41 Psalm 6:7; Psalm 7:6; Psalm 44:10, etc.); for "O thou enemy," etc. (Psalm 9:6) we have "The enemy are come to an end"; instead of "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him" (Isaiah 59:19) we have "For he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh driveth" (with the text of the King James Version in margins); for "The fire of thine enemies shall devour them" (Isaiah 26:11), "Fire shall devour thine adversaries" (text of the King James Version in the margin).

The frequent reference to enemies in the Old Testament is what we should expect to see in these early times on the part of a people settling in a land that had been occupied by other tribes, worshipping other gods. The spirit of their law was that expressed by our Lord in His Sermon on the Mount, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy." This He changed: "but I say unto you, Love your enemies." An approach toward this spirit had been made in the later prophets by their inclusion of the whole world under one God, who had a gracious purpose toward all, but the near statement of it we only find in Proverbs 25:21 (quoted by Paul, Romans 12:20). See also Exodus 23:4, and compare 2 Kings 6:22 2 Chronicles 28:15.

W. L. Walker

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.

2. (a.) Hostile; inimical.

Strong's Hebrew
7790. shur -- perhaps enemy
... perhaps enemy. Transliteration: shur Phonetic Spelling: (shoor) Short Definition:
foes. Word Origin from shur Definition perhaps enemy NASB Word Usage foes (1). ...
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341. oyeb -- enemy, foe
... oyeb. 342 >>. enemy, foe. Transliteration: oyeb Phonetic Spelling: (o-yabe') Short
Definition: enemy. Word Origin active participle of ayab, qv. enemy, foe ...
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8324. sharar -- enemy
... << 8323, 8324. sharar. 8325 >>. enemy. Transliteration: sharar Phonetic Spelling:
(shaw-rar') Short Definition: enemy. Word Origin see shorer. enemy ...
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4584. Maon -- "habitation," a place in Judah, also a man of Judah ...
... << 4583, 4584. Maon. 4585 >>. "habitation," a place in Judah, also a man of
Judah, also an enemy of Isr. Transliteration: Maon Phonetic ...
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340. ayab -- to be hostile to
... root Definition to be hostile to NASB Word Usage enemies (196), enemies' (2), enemy
(79), enemy to your enemies (1), enemy's (1), foes (2). be an enemy. ...
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8130. sane -- to hate
... root Definition to hate NASB Word Usage detest (1), enemy (3), enmity (1), foes
(1), hate (78), hated (28), hated her intensely (1), hates (19), hating (2 ...
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6145. ar -- perhaps adversary
... enemies (1). enemy. From uwr; a foe (as watchful for mischief) -- enemy. see
HEBREW uwr. << 6144, 6145. ar. 6146 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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6862. tsar -- narrow, tight
... narrow, tight. Transliteration: tsar Phonetic Spelling: (tsar) Short Definition:
adversary. adversary, affliction, anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, ...
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6146. ar -- foe
... Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to ar Definition foe NASB Word Usage adversaries
(1). enemy. (Aramaic) corresponding to ar -- enemy. see HEBREW ar. ...
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1494. gazaz -- to shear
... A primitive root (akin to guwz); to cut off; specifically to shear a flock or shave
the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy -- cut off (down), poll, shave ...
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Subtopics

Enemy

Enemy: Forgiveness of David, of Absalom, and Co-Conspirators

Enemy: General Scriptures Concerning

Enemy: Jesus, of his Persecutors

Enemy: Stephen, of his Murderers

Enemy: The Wickedness of David's

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