Foe
עָרStrong’s H6146ar
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ar is the Aramaic word usually translated “adversaries your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.”
Meaning
- Enemy, adversary, foe
How it's translated
- for adversaries your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
עָר ar · foe
enemy, adversary, foe Aramaic of ar (עָר "enemy" H6145)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOE, noun
fo. [See Fiend.]
- An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.“A man's foes shall be they of his own household” Matthew 10:36
- An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.“Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes” 1 Chronicles 21:12
- foe like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.
- An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.
All definitions and other forms of “foe”
FOE, verb transitive
To treat as an enemy. obsolete
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.