DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Enemy

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

107exact KJV occurrences 96Old Testament 11New Testament 30books containing the word 7mapped Strong's IDs 106occurrence-specific Strong's links

FIRST OCCURRENCE

Exodus 15:6

Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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HEAVIEST BOOK

Psalms

25 occurrences in 25 verses.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where enemy appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Exodus 33 verses Leviticus 11 verses Numbers 22 verses Deuteronomy 44 verses Judges 22 verses 1 Samuel 77 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 65 verses 2 Chronicles 33 verses Ezra 22 verses Esther 66 verses Job 44 verses Psalms 2525 verses Proverbs 33 verses Isaiah 22 verses Jeremiah 66 verses Lamentations 1111 verses Ezekiel 11 verses Hosea 11 verses Micah 33 verses Nahum 11 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Matthew 44 verses Luke 11 verses Acts 11 verses Romans 11 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses Galatians 11 verses 2 Thessalonians 11 verses James 11 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH341

אֹיֵב

ʼôyêb · o-yabe'

77 times translated as this KJV form280 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

hating; an adversary

Strong's KJV usage: enemy, foe.

Other KJV renderings

enemies 200 foes 2 enemy's 1

Strong's first: Exodus 15:6Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:15

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GreekG2190

ἐχθρός

echthrós · ech-thros'

11 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences

hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile); usually as a noun, an adversary (especially Satan)

Strong's KJV usage: :--enemy, foe.

Other KJV renderings

enemies 18 foes 2 An enemy 1 The enemy 1 of 1 of the enemy 1

Strong's first: Matthew 5:43Strong's last: James 4:4

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HebrewH6862

צַר

tsar · tsar

9 times translated as this KJV form103 total Strong's occurrences

a n-m

narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)

Strong's KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.

Other KJV renderings

enemies 26 adversaries 21 trouble 15 adversary 5 distress 4 affliction 3 narrow 2 strait 2

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:32Strong's last: Lamentations 1:7

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HebrewH6887

צָרַר

tsârar · tsaw-rar'

5 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences

to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive

Strong's KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.

Other KJV renderings

enemies 9 up 7 distress 5 vex 4 besiege 4 strait 3 bound 2 distressed 2

Strong's first: Esther 3:10Strong's last: Psalms 7:4

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HebrewH8130

שָׂנֵא

sânêʼ · saw-nay'

2 times translated as this KJV form146 total Strong's occurrences

to hate (personally)

Strong's KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, × utterly.

Other KJV renderings

hate 67 hated 42 hateth 20 hatest 5 enemies 3 hating 1 utterly 1 foes 1

Strong's first: Proverbs 25:21Strong's last: Proverbs 27:6

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HebrewH340

אָיַב

ʼâyab · aw-yab'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to hate (as one of an opposite tribe or party); hence to be hostile

Strong's KJV usage: be an enemy.

Strong's first: Exodus 23:22Strong's last: Exodus 23:22

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HebrewH6145

עָר

ʻâr · awr

1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a foe (as watchful for mischief)

Strong's KJV usage: enemy.

Other KJV renderings

cities 4 enemies 1

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 28:16Strong's last: 1 Samuel 28:16

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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1 Samuel 2:32

H6862

And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

1 Samuel 18:29

H341

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 19:17

H341

And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

1 Samuel 24:4

H341

And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

1 Samuel 24:19

H341

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

1 Samuel 26:8

H341

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

1 Samuel 28:16

H6145

Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

enemy

EN'EMY, noun [Latin inimicus.]

1. A foe; an adversary. A private enemy is one who hates another and wishes him injury, or attempts to do him injury to gratify his own malice or ill will. A public enemy or foe, is one who belongs to a nation or party, at war with another.

I way to you, love your enemies. Matthew 5:43.

Enemies in war; in peace friends.

2. One who hates or dislikes; as an enemy to truth or falsehood.

3. In theology, and by way of eminence, the enemy is the Devil; the archfiend.

4. In military affairs, the opposing army or naval force in war, is called the enemy

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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