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# אֵיבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H342

**enmity** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

enmity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/342/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיבָה: n.f. enmity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/342/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. enmity—א׳ Gn 3:15 + 2 textual; cstr. אֵיבַת Ez 25:15; 35:5—enmity, personal hostility, betw. men Nu 35:21, 22 (P), betw. serpent & woman Gn 3:15 (J), betw. peoples אֵיבַת עוֹלָם Ez 25:15; 35:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: enmity (5).

## In the verses

[Numbers 35:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.22/#tree)

וְאִם־בְּפֶ֥תַע בְּלֹא־אֵיבָ֖ה הֲדָפ֑וֹ אוֹ־הִשְׁלִ֥יךְ עָלָ֛יו כָּל־כְּלִ֖י בְּלֹ֥א צְדִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and if with suddenness with not enmity he pushed.him or he.threw on him any weapon with not lying.in.wait

*JPS 1917:* But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,

[Ezekiel 25:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.25.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.25.15/#tree)

כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה יַ֛עַן עֲשׂ֥וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בִּנְקָמָ֑ה וַיִּנָּקְמ֤וּ נָקָם֙ בִּשְׁאָ֣ט בְּנֶ֔פֶשׁ לְמַשְׁחִ֖ית אֵיבַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh because acted \[the\].Philistines in vengeance and they.avenged.themselves vengeance with scorn in.\[the\] self to destruction enmity of.antiquity

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with disdain of soul to destroy, for the old hatred;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/342.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/342/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).