Enemy
עָרStrong’s H6145ar
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ar is the Hebrew word usually translated “enemy your” and “enemies your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?”
Meaning
- Enemy, adversary, foe
How it's translated
- enemy your 1
- enemies your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָר ar · enemy
enemy, adversary, foe Aramaic equivalent: ar (עָר "foe" H6146)
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.