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Word Study · Strong's H341 · Hebrew

אֹיֵב

oyeb

o-yabe'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼôyêb

hating

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

hating; an adversary

Rendered in the KJV as

enemy, foe.

  • 282
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 28 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 177
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 282 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 177

  • אוֹיֵֽב׃8
  • אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם7
  • אֹיְבַ֣י6
  • אֹיְבֵיהֶ֖ם6
  • אֹיְבָֽיו׃6
  • אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ6
  • אוֹיֵ֑ב5
  • אוֹיֵ֖ב5
  • אֹיְבָ֖יו5
  • אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם5
  • אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃5
  • אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙4

and 165 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 46

  • enemies your60
  • enemies their32
  • enemies my28
  • an enemy25
  • enemies his16
  • [the] enemy13
  • enemies our9
  • enemy your9
  • [the] enemies of8
  • enemies its8
  • enemy my7
  • from enemies my6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 34

  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular39
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular38
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural32
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular28
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular24
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural20
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular9
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)9
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural9
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular8
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular7
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular7
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVqrmsa · 39
  • HVqrmpc/Sp2ms · 38
  • HVqrmpc/Sp3mp · 32
  • HVqrmpc/Sp1bs · 28
  • HVqrmpc/Sp3ms · 24
  • HVqrmpc/Sp2mp · 20
  • HR/Vqrmsa · 9
  • HVqrmpc · 9
  • HVqrmpc/Sp1bp · 9
  • HVqrmsc/Sp2ms · 8
  • HR/Vqrmpc/Sp1bs · 7
  • HVqrmsc/Sp1bs · 7

All 282, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus5 occurrences
Leviticus13 occurrences
Numbers8 occurrences
Deuteronomy25 occurrences
Joshua11 occurrences
Judges9 occurrences
1 Samuel21 occurrences
2 Samuel16 occurrences
1 Kings8 occurrences
2 Kings3 occurrences
1 Chronicles5 occurrences
2 Chronicles8 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah5 occurrences
Esther6 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms73 occurrences
Proverbs2 occurrences
Isaiah8 occurrences
Jeremiah19 occurrences
Lamentations15 occurrences
Ezekiel2 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos1 occurrence
Micah6 occurrences
Nahum4 occurrences
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).