אֵיבָה

eva · enmity

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H342 · appears 5 times in the Bible

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What it means

eva (אֵיבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “enmity”.

Hostility between two parties.

How to say it

e·va

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. Hatred between two.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 3:15

    And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.”

  • Numbers 35:21

    or in enmity struck him with his hand and he died, the one who struck shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer. The avenger of blood shall put to death the manslayer when he meets him.

  • Numbers 35:22

    But if suddenly, without enmity, he pushed him, or threw at him any object without lying in wait,

  • Ezekiel 25:15

    Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because the Philistines acted with vengeance and took vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy, with eternal enmity,

  • Ezekiel 35:5

    Because you had an eternal enmity and poured out the sons of Israel into the hands of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end,