noun · feminine
echthras
Strong’sG2189
enmity, hostility
stem echthr-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἔχθρα, -ας, ἡ
(< ἐχθρός), [in LXX for אֵיבָה, שִׂנְאָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2189 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidekh'-thrah
hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition
Fromfeminine of G2190;
King Jamesenmity, hatred.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect ἔχθρη, ἡ, hatred, enmity, Refs 5th c.BC+: in philosophical sense, ={νεῖκος}Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἔ. τινός hatred for, enmity to one, NT+5th c.BC+; δι᾽ ἔχθρας μολεῖν, ἀφῖχθαί τινι, to be at feud with one, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς ἔχθραν from personal enmity, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἔ. συμβάλλειν, συνάπτειν τινί, to engage in hostility with.., Refs 5th c.BC+, of undying hatred, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | echthras2×ἔχθρα | echthrais1×ἔχθραι |
| object accusative | echthran2×ἔχθραν | echthrain |
| direct address vocative | echthrar | echthrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | echthrau | echthraiu |
| to, for dative | echthra1×ἔχθρᾳ | echthrai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
echthra is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
echthras“enmity”subjectnominative singular2×
Romans 8:7dioti tem fronēmem tau sarkau echthras eis theon, to gar nomo tou …… the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit …
James 4:4“enmity”… oidavē hoti tas filias tou kosmou echthras tou theou atō? hos ean oun …… you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself …
echthran“hostility”objectaccusative singular2×
Ephesians 2:14… tem mesotoichem tou fragmou luarantos, tan echthran en ta sarka autou,… torn down the dividing wall of hostility
Ephesians 2:16… theo dia tou staurou apoktenarantos tan echthran en auto;… which He put to death their hostility.
echthra“enemies”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 23:12… hēmera meta allēloiu; prouparchale gar en echthra arōntois pros heautoin.… before this time they had been enemies.
echthrais“hatred”subjectnominative plural1×
Galatians 5:20eidōlolatrias, farmakeias, echthrais, eridas, zēlos, thumois, eritheiais, dichostasiais, hairesiais,idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions …