ἔχθρα
echthra · hostility
Greek word · Strong’s number G2189 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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echthra (ἔχθρα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hostility”.
Enmity.
How to say it
ech·thra
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Hatred and rejection that divide two people or peoples, or man from God.
From Abbott-Smith (1922)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hostility ×3
- enmity ×2
- enmities ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 23:12
And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for they had previously been at enmity with each other.
- Romans 8:7
because the mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it;
- Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of rage, rivalries, divisions, factions,
- Ephesians 2:14
For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the hostility, in his flesh,
- Ephesians 2:16
and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it.
- James 4:4
Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.