To hate
שְׂנָאStrong’s H8131sene (se-ne)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sene is the Aramaic word usually translated “enemy 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
- (P'al) to hatefoe (participle)
How it's translated
- for enemy your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
שְׂנָא sene · to hate
1) (P'al) to hate 1a) foe (participle)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.