Enmity
אֵיבָהStrong’s H0342evah (e-vah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Evah is the Hebrew word usually translated “enmity of” and “enmity”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
Meaning
- Enmity, hatred
How it's translated
- enmity of 2
- and enmity 1
- in enmity 1
- enmity 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 35:21Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
- Numbers 35:22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
- Ezekiel 25:15Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
- Ezekiel 35:5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Hebrew dictionary
אֵיבָה evah · enmity
enmity, hatred
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “enmity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'MITY, noun
- The quality of being an enemy; the opposite of friendship; ill will; hatred; unfriendly dispositions; malevolence.“I will put enmity between thee and the woman” Genesis 3:15“The carnal mind is enmity against God” Romans 8:7
- A state of opposition.“The friendship of the world is enmity with God” James 4:4
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.