1. enemy, adversary, foe — A substantivized Qal active participle of the root א-י-ב denoting one who is hostile; used uniformly throughout the Hebrew Bible for personal, national, and divine enemies with no semantic differentiation across inflectional forms, pronominal suffixes, or prepositional prefixes. 284×
AR["العَدُوَّ","العَدُوُّ","العَدُوِّ","العَدُوّ","الـ-عَدُوِّ","الْ-عَدُوَّ","الْ-عَدُوُّ","الْعَدُوَّ","الْعَدُوِّ","الْـ-عَدُوِّ","عَدُوًّا","عَدُوٍّ"]·ben["-শত্রুর","শত্রু","শত্রুকে","শত্রুর","শত্রুর।"]·DE["Feind","Feinde","der-Feinde","der-enemy","enemy"]·EN["an-enemy","enemy","the-enemy"]·FR["enemy","ennemi","le-ennemi"]·heb["אויב","ה-אויב"]·HI["दुशमन","शत्रु","शत्रु-का","शत्रु-के","शत्रु-के।","शत्रु-को","शत्रु-ने"]·ID["musuh"]·IT["il-nemico","nemico"]·jav["mengsah","satru."]·KO["그-원수","그-원수의","원수","원수-가","원수-와","원수-의","원수가","원수를","원수의"]·PT["inimigo","inimigo-de","inimigo.","inimigo:","o-inimigo"]·RU["враг","врага","врагом"]·ES["al-enemigo","el-enemigo","enemigo","enemigo-de"]·SW["adui","kwa-sababu","mbali","wa-adui"]·TR["dusmanin","düşman","düşmanı","düşmanın"]·urd["دشمن","دشمن-نے","دشمن-کا","دشمن-کو","دشمن-کی","دشمن-کے"]
Senses
Related Senses
H4421 1. war, battle, armed conflict (319×)H3898a 1. Nifal: to fight, wage war (167×)H2026 1. kill, slay (active) (146×)H2451 1. wisdom, discernment (146×)H5483b 1. horse (the animal) (138×)H0006 1. to perish, be destroyed (105×)H7843 1. Hifil: destroy, annihilate (83×)H2491a 1. slain, fatally pierced (74×)H6862c 1. adversary, enemy, foe (69×)H8045 1. destroy, exterminate (69×)G0615 1. kill, put to death (60×)H6571b 1. horseman, cavalryman (52×)H8077a 1. desolation, waste (abstract state) (52×)G4678 1. of wisdom (51×)G4717 1. crucify, fasten to a cross (46×)H2763a 1. utterly destroy (Hifil active) (44×)G0622 1. perish, be destroyed (intransitive) (41×)H0006 2. to destroy, annihilate (Piel) (38×)H8074 1. be desolate, lie waste (36×)G2190 1. enemy / hostile one (32×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
[אָיַב283] vb. be hostile to (Ass. aibu (v. DlW), enemy = אֹיֵב)— Qal Pf. †וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י Ex 23:22; Pt. אוֹיֵב (אֹיֵב) Ex 15:6 +; sf. (אוֹיְבִי) אֹיְבִי 2 S 22:18 = ψ 18:18 +; f. sf. אֹיַבְת��ּי Mi 7:8, 10; אֹיִבְךָ Ex 23:4 +, etc.; pl. אוֹיְבִים ψ 68:24; 127:5; אֹיְבִים ψ 139:22, etc.;—be hostile to, treat as enemy Ex 23:22 (E, Cov’t code) וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י אֶת־אֹיְבֶיךָ וְצַרְתִּ֫י אֶת־צֹרְרֶיךָ…