echthros · enemy

What it means

echthros (ἐχθρός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “enemy”.

Hostile.

How to say it

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

1. Someone who hates another or wars against them.
2. The great enemy: the devil, or death.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• enemies ×21
• enemy ×11

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×1
• Luke×8
• Acts×2
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×1
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×2
• James×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 5:43

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

• Matthew 5:44

  But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

• Matthew 10:36

  and a person’s enemies will be the members of his household.

• Matthew 13:25

  But while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.

• Matthew 13:28

  And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ And the slaves say to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’

• Matthew 13:39

  and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.

• Matthew 22:44

  ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

• Mark 12:36

  David himself said by the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

• Luke 1:71

  salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

• Luke 1:74

  that, without fear, rescued from the hand of enemies, we might serve him

• Luke 6:27

  But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

• Luke 6:35

  Rather, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

• Luke 10:19

  Look, I have given you the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will ever harm you.

• Luke 19:27

  But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring here and slaughter them before me.’”

• Luke 19:43

  For days will come upon you when your enemies will set up a barricade against you and surround you and hem you in on every side,

• Luke 20:43

  until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

• Acts 2:35

  until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

• Acts 13:10

  and said, “You full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

• Romans 5:10

  For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

• Romans 11:28

  As regards the good news, they are enemies for your sake; but as regards the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

• Romans 12:20

  But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for by doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.

• 1 Corinthians 15:25

  For he must reign until he has put all the enemies under his feet.

• 1 Corinthians 15:26

  The last enemy is being done away with: death.

• Galatians 4:16

  So have I become your enemy by telling the truth to you?

• Philippians 3:18

  For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now I tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of the Messiah,

• Colossians 1:21

  And you, who were once alienated and enemies in mind in evil works,

• 2 Thessalonians 3:15

  Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

• Hebrews 1:13

  But to which of the angels has he ever said: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?

• Hebrews 10:13

  from then on waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

• 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.

• Revelation 11:5

  And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed.

• Revelation 11:12

  And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.