מַשְׂטֵמָה
mastema · hostility
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4895 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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mastema (מַשְׂטֵמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hostility”.
Enmity: the hatred someone holds against another.
How to say it
mas·te·ma
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 that drives to persecute.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come; Israel will know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of the abundance of your iniquity, and the hostility is great.
- Hosea 9:8
Ephraim is a watchman with my Elohim; the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, hostility in the house of his Elohim.