To hate
שָׂנֵאStrong’s H8130sane (sa-ne)
Appears in 139 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sane is the Hebrew word usually translated “hate”, “hate you” and “hating”. It appears in 139 verses of the Old Testament.
“And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.”
Meaning
- To hate, be hateful(Qal) to hate · (Niphal) to be hated · (Piel) hater (participle)
How it's translated
- i hate 12
- hate you 11
- hating 8
- hate me 7
- to hate 6
- hates 6
- hated 5
- hate 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 40
- Proverbs 25
- Deuteronomy 18
- Genesis 7
- 2 Samuel 6
- Exodus 4
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
- Genesis 26:27And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
- Genesis 29:31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
- Genesis 29:33And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
- Genesis 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
- Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
All 139 verses, by book
- Numbers 1
- 10:35
- Joshua 1
- 20:5
- 1 Kings 1
- 22:8
- Psalms 40
- 5:59:1311:518:1718:4021:825:1926:531:634:2135:1936:238:1941:744:744:1045:750:1755:1268:169:469:1481:1583:286:1789:2397:10101:3105:25106:10106:41118:7119:104119:113119:128119:163120:6129:5139:21139:22
- Proverbs 25
- 1:221:295:126:168:138:369:811:1512:113:513:2414:1714:2015:1015:2719:725:1725:2126:2426:2827:628:1629:1029:2430:23
- Hosea 1
- 9:15
- Micah 1
- 3:2
- Zechariah 1
- 8:17
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂנֵא sane · to hate
1) to hate, be hateful 1a) (Qal) to hate 1a1) of man 1a2) of God 1a3) hater, one hating, enemy (participle) (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be hated 1c) (Piel) hater (participle) 1c1) of persons, nations, God, wisdom Aramaic equivalent: se.ne (שְׂנָא "to hate" H8131)
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.