To hate
שָׂטַםStrong’s H7852satam (sa-tam)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Satam is the Hebrew word usually translated “bore a grudge against”, “bear a grudge him” and “bear a grudge us”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.”
Meaning
- To hate, oppose oneself to, bear a grudge, retain animosity against, cherish animosity against(Qal) to cherish animosity against
How it's translated
- and he bore a grudge against 1
- and they bear a grudge him 1
- he will bear a grudge us 1
- and it has assailed me 1
- you are hostile to me 1
- they are hostile to me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Job 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
- Genesis 50:15And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
- Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- Job 30:21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
- Psalms 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂטַם satam · to hate
1) to hate, oppose oneself to, bear a grudge, retain animosity against, cherish animosity against 1a) (Qal) to cherish animosity against
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HATE, verb transitive
[Latin odi, for hodi.]
- To dislike greatly; to have a great aversion to.“How long will fools hate knowledge?” Proverbs 1:22“Blessed are ye when men shall hate you” Luke 6:22
- In Scripture, it signifies to love less.“If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, etc” Luke 14:26“He that spareth the rod, hateth his son” Proverbs 13:24
All definitions and other forms of “hate”
HATE, noun
Great dislike or aversion; hatred.
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.