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Lexicon :: Strong's G2190 - echthros

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ἐχθρός
Transliteration
echthros (Key)
Pronunciation
ech-thros'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary echtho (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:811,285

Strong’s Definitions

ἐχθρός echthrós, ech-thros'; from a primary ἔχθω échthō (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile); usually as a noun, an adversary (especially Satan):—enemy, foe.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's G2190 in the following manner: enemy (30x), foe (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's G2190 in the following manner: enemy (30x), foe (2x).

  1. hated, odious, hateful

  2. hostile, hating, and opposing another

    1. used of men as at enmity with God by their sin

      1. opposing (God) in the mind

      2. a man that is hostile

      3. a certain enemy

      4. the hostile one

      5. the devil who is the most bitter enemy of the divine government

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐχθρός echthrós, ech-thros'; from a primary ἔχθω échthō (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile); usually as a noun, an adversary (especially Satan):—enemy, foe.
STRONGS G2190:
ἐχθρός, ἔχθρα, ἐχθρόν (ἔχθος hatred); the Sept. numberless times for אויֵב, also for צַר, several times for שׂונֵא and מְשַׂנֵּא, a hater;
1. passively, hated, odious, hateful (in Homer only in this sense): Romans 11:28 (opposed to ἀγαπητός).
2. actively, hostile, hating and opposing another: 1 Corinthians 15:25; 2 Thessalonians 3:15; with the genitive of the person hated or opposed, James 4:4 Lachmann; Galatians 4:16, cf. Meyer or Wieseler on the latter passage used of men as at enmity with God by their sin: Romans 5:10 (cf. Romans 8:7; Colossians 1:21; James 4:4) (but many take ἐχθρός here (as in Romans 11:28, see 1 above) passively; cf. Meyer); τῇ διάνοια, opposing (God) in the mind, Colossians 1:21; ἐχθρός ἄνθρωπος, a man that is hostile, a certain enemy, Matthew 13:28; ὁ ἐχθρός, the hostile one (well known to you), i. e. κατ' ἐξοχήν the devil, the most bitter enemy of the divine government: Luke 10:19, cf. Matthew 13:39 (and ecclesiastical writings). ὁ ἐχθρός (and ἐχθρός) substantively, enemy (so the word, whether adjective or a substantive, is translated in A. V., except twice (R. V. once) foe: ἔσχατος ἐχθρός, 1 Corinthians 15:26): with the genitive of the person to whom one is hostile, Matthew 5:43; Matthew 10:36; Matthew 13:25; Luke 1:(Luke 1:71),Luke 1:74; Luke 6:27,35; 19:27,43; Romans 12:20; Revelation 11:5, 12; in the words of Psalm 109:1 (Ps. 110:1), quoted in Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35; 1 Corinthians 15:25 (L brackets; others omit the genitive (see above)); Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 10:13. with the genitive of the thing: Acts 13:10; τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, who given up to their evil passions evade the obligations imposed upon them by the death of Christ, Philippians 3:18.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
109:1; 110:1
Matthew
5:43; 10:36; 13:25; 13:28; 13:39; 22:44
Mark
12:36
Luke
1; 1:71; 1:74; 6:27; 6:35; 10:19; 19:27; 19:43; 20:43
Acts
2:35; 13:10
Romans
5:10; 8:7; 11:28; 11:28; 12:20
1 Corinthians
15:25; 15:25; 15:26
Galatians
4:16
Philippians
3:18
Colossians
1:21; 1:21
2 Thessalonians
3:15
Hebrews
1:13; 10:13
James
4:4; 4:4
Revelation
11:5; 11:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2190 matches the Greek ἐχθρός (echthros),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:43 - “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor[fn] and hate your enemy.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44 - “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:36 - “and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:25 - “but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:28 - “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:39

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:39 - “The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:44 - ‘The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’ ?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:36 - “For David himself said by the Holy Spirit:

‘The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:71

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:71 - That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:74

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:74 - To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:27 - “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:19 - “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:27 - ‘But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:43 - “For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:43 - Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:35 - Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:10 - and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:10 - For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 - Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:20 - Therefore

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:25 - For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:26 - The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:16 - Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:18 - For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:21 - And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:15 - Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:13 - But to which of the angels has He ever said:

“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:13 - from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - Adulterers and[fn] adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:5 - And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:12 - And they[fn] heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.
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