sina · hatred

What it means

sina (שִׂנְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hatred”.

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. A strong feeling of rejection and enmity toward someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hatred ×16
• hate ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Numbers 35:20

  And if in hatred he pushed him or threw something at him lying in wait, and he died,

• Deuteronomy 1:27

  You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because of YHWH’s hatred for us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us.

• Deuteronomy 9:28

  lest the land from which you brought us say, ‘Because YHWH was not able to bring them into the land of which he had spoken to them, and because of his hatred for them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’

• 2 Samuel 13:15

  Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred, for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Get up, go.”

• Psalms 25:19

  See my enemies, for they are many, and with a hatred of violence they hate me.

• Psalms 109:3

  And with words of hatred they have surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.

• Psalms 109:5

  And they have laid on me evil in return for good, and hatred in return for my love.

• Psalms 139:22

  With complete hatred I hate them; they have become enemies to me.

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirs up quarrels, but all transgressions love covers.

• Proverbs 10:18

  He who conceals hatred has lips of falsehood, and he who spreads slander is senseless.

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a ration of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

• Proverbs 26:26

  Though hatred is covered with pretense, his evil will be revealed in the assembly.

• Ecclesiastes 9:1

  For all this I laid to my heart, even to make clear all this: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of Elohim; whether love or hate, the human being does not know; all is before them.

• Ecclesiastes 9:6

  Both their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished, and they have no longer a portion forever in all that is done under the sun.

• Ezekiel 23:29

  And they will deal with you in hatred, and take all your labor, and leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitutions will be uncovered, both your infamy and your prostitutions.

• Ezekiel 35:11

  therefore, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, I will act according to your anger and according to your jealousy with which you acted out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

And 1 more times.