Hatred
מַשְׂטֵמָהStrong’s H4895mastemah (mas-te-mah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mastemah is the Hebrew word usually translated “animosity”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.”
Meaning
- Animosity, enmity
How it's translated
- animosity 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׂטֵמָה mastemah · hatred
animosity, enmity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hatred” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HA'TRED, noun
Great dislike or aversion; hate; enmity. hatred is an aversion to evil, and may spring from utter disapprobation, as the hatred of vice or meanness; or it may spring from offenses or injuries done by fellow men, or from envy or jealousy, in which case it is usually accompanied with malevolence or malignity. Extreme hatred is abhorrence or detestation.
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.