Opposition
תְּנוּאָהStrong’s H8569tenuah (te-nu-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tenuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “opposition my” and “occasions”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.”
Meaning
- Opposition, alienation, enmity
How it's translated
- opposition my 1
- occasions 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
תְּנוּאָה tenuah · opposition
opposition, alienation, enmity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “opposition” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OPPOSI'TION, noun
[Latin oppositio.]
- Situation so as to front something else; a standing over against; as the opposition of two mountains or buildings.
- The act of opposing; attempt to check, restrain or defeat. he makes opposition to the measure; the bill passed without opposition Will any opposition be made to the suit, to the claim or demand?
- Obstacle. the river meets with no opposition in its course to the ocean.
- Resistance; as the opposition of enemies.
All definitions
- Contrariety; repugnance in principle; as the opposition of the heart to the laws of God.
- Contrariety of interests, measures on designs.
- Contrariety or diversity of meaning; as one term used in opposition to another.
- Contradiction; inconsistency.
- The collective body of opposers; in England, the party in Parliament which opposed the ministry; in America, the party that opposed the existing administration.
- In astronomy, the situation of two heavenly bodies, when distant from each other 180 degrees.
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.