ἐχθραίνω
be hostile, hate
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐχθραίνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 25:17 ἐχθραίνω Plague the Madianites as enemies, and strike them,
- Numbers 25:18 ἐχθραίνω for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was struck in the day of the plague because of Phogor.
- Deuteronomy 2:9 ἐχθραίνω And the Lord said to me, Do not you⌃ quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot to inherit.
- Deuteronomy 2:19 ἐχθραίνω and you⌃ shall draw near to the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.
- Psalms 3:8 ἐχθραίνω Deliverance is the Lord's, and your blessing is upon your people.
- Psalms 34:19 ἐχθραίνω Let not them that are my enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.
About this word
About this word
ἐχθραίνω (echthraínō), “be hostile, hate,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
