Evah אֵיבָה
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| אֵיבָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | evah |
| Strong's number | H342 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | enmity |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | Numbers (2) |
Evah (Hebrew אֵיבָה, Strong's H342) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “enmity”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
enmity, hatred
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | enmity (3), hatred (2) |
|---|---|
| BSB | hostility (2), enmity (1), if in hostility (1), hatred (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Evah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Numbers
- Numbers 35:21Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
- Numbers 35:22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 25:15Thus saith the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
- Ezekiel 35:5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).