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Word Study · Strong's H8130 · Hebrew

שָׂנֵא

sane

saw-nay'

Strong's 1890 spelling: sânêʼ

to hate (personally)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to hate (personally)

Rendered in the KJV as

enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, [idiom] utterly.

  • 146
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 122
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 146 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 122

  • שֹׂנֵ֥א5
  • שָׂנֵ֑אתִי4
  • שׂוֹנֵ֣א3
  • שָׂנֵֽאתִי׃3
  • וְשֹׂנֵ֖א2
  • יִשְׂנָ֣א2
  • יִשְׂנְאוּ־2
  • לְשֹׂנְאָֽ֑י׃2
  • מְשַׂנְאֶ֖יךָ2
  • שׂוֹנֵ֑א2
  • שָׂנֵ֣א2
  • שֹׂנְאַ֣י2

and 110 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 80

  • I hate12
  • [those who] hate you10
  • [those who] hate me7
  • [one who] hates6
  • he hates5
  • [was] hating4
  • to hate4
  • you hate4
  • and [one who] hates3
  • from [those who] hate me3
  • it hates3
  • [is] hating2

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

How it parses · 66

  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular14
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular13
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular6
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular6
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular5
  • verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular5
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular3
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 2nd person masculine singular3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVqp1cs · 14
  • HVqrmsa · 13
  • HR/Vqrmpc/Sp1bs · 6
  • HVqrmpc/Sp2ms · 6
  • HVqp3ms · 5
  • HVqrmpc/Sp1bs · 5
  • HVqsfsa · 4
  • HC/Vqrmsa · 3
  • HR/Vqcc · 3
  • HR/Vqrmpc/Sp3mp · 3
  • HVqcc · 3
  • HVqp2ms · 3

All 146, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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

Genesis7 occurrences
Exodus4 occurrences
Leviticus2 occurrences
Numbers1 occurrence
Deuteronomy20 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges4 occurrences
2 Samuel8 occurrences
1 Kings1 occurrence
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
Esther3 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms41 occurrences
Proverbs26 occurrences
Ecclesiastes3 occurrences
Isaiah4 occurrences
Jeremiah2 occurrences
Ezekiel4 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos4 occurrences
Micah1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Malachi2 occurrences
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).