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Lexicon :: Strong's G2190 - echthros

Aa
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 MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:43

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44 - But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:36 - a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:25 - But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:28 - “ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:39

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:44 - “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:36 - David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:71

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:71 - salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:74

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:74 - to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:27

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:19 - I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:27 - But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:43 - The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:43 - until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:35 - until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:10 - “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:10 - For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 - As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:20 - On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:25 - For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:26

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:16 - Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:18 - For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:21 - Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[fn] your evil behavior.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 3:15 - Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:13 - To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”[fn]?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:13 - and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - You adulterous people,[fn] don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:5 - If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:12 - Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
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