Enemy
אֹיֵבStrong’s H0341oyev (o-yev)
Appears in 276 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oyev is the Hebrew word usually translated “enemies your”, “enemies their” and “enemies my”. It appears in 276 verses of the Old Testament.
“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;”
Meaning
- (Qal) enemypersonal · national
How it's translated
- enemies your 60
- enemies their 32
- enemies my 28
- an enemy 26
- enemies his 17
- enemy 13
- enemy your 9
- enemies our 9
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 73
- Deuteronomy 25
- 1 Samuel 21
- Jeremiah 18
- 2 Samuel 16
- Lamentations 15
28 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:8Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
- Exodus 15:6Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Exodus 23:4If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- Exodus 23:22But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
- Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
All 276 verses, by book
- Deuteronomy 25
- 1:426:1912:1020:120:320:420:1421:1023:923:1425:1928:728:2528:3128:4828:5328:5528:5728:6830:732:2732:3132:4233:2733:29
- 1 Samuel 21
- 2:14:310:112:1012:1114:2414:3014:4718:2518:2919:1720:1520:1624:424:1925:2225:2625:2926:829:830:26
- Psalms 73
- 3:76:107:58:29:39:613:213:417:918:118:318:1718:3718:4018:4821:825:225:1927:227:630:131:831:1535:1937:2038:1941:241:541:1142:943:244:1645:554:755:355:1256:959:161:364:166:368:168:2168:2369:469:1871:1072:974:374:1074:1878:5380:681:1483:289:1089:2289:4289:5192:9102:8106:10106:42110:1110:2119:98127:5132:18138:7139:22143:3143:9143:12
- Hosea 1
- 8:3
- Amos 1
- 9:4
- Zephaniah 1
- 3:15
Hebrew dictionary
אֹיֵב oyev · enemy
1) (Qal) enemy 1a) personal 1b) national
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “enemy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'EMY, noun
[Latin inimicus.]
- A foe; an adversary.“I way to you, love your enemies” Matthew 5:44
- One who hates or dislikes; as an enemy to truth or falsehood.
- In theology, and by way of eminence, the enemy is the Devil; the archfiend.
- In military affairs, the opposing army or naval force in war, is called the enemy
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.