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Hatred

Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term

How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.

GREEK · G8332

μῖσος

misos — hatred

1. hate, hatred : and so, 2. passive hate borne one, a being hated , [variant datesTragica Adespota, (Plato Philosophus) 3. active hate felt against another, a grudge , (Sophocles Tragicus), etc.; μ. τινός τινι felt by one against another, (Euripides) 4. of persons, a hateful object , = μίσημα, [variant datesTragica Adespota (ML)

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GREEK · G2190

ἐχθρός

echthros — enemy

ἐχθρός, -ά, -όν (ἔχθος, hatred), [in LXX chiefly for אֵיבָה, also for עָר, etc. ;] 1. hated, hateful (Hom.): opposite to ἀγαπητός, Rom.11:28. 2. Actively, hating, hostile: Rom.5:10, 1Co.15:25, 2Th.3:15; with genitive of person(s) (cl.), Jas.4:4; τ. διανοίᾳ, Col.1:21; ἐ. ἄνθρωπος, Mat.13:28; as subst., ὁ ἐ., an enemy, 1Co.15:26; the devil, Mat.13:39, Luk.10:19; with genitive of person(s), Mat.22:44 Mrk.12:36, Luk.20:43, Act.2:35, 1Co.15:25, Heb.1:13 10:13" (LXX) ; Mat.5:43-44 10:36 13:25, Luk.1:71, 74 6:27, 35 19:27, 43, Rom.12:20, Gal.4:16, Rev.11:5, 12; with genitive of thing(s), Act.13:10, Php.3:18.† (AS)

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GREEK · G4359

προσοφείλω

prosopheilō — to owe besides

to owe besides or still , (Thucydides): absolute, προσοφείλοντας ἡμᾶς ἐνέγραψεν (Demosthenes Orator):—;Pass. to be still owing, be still due , (Thucydides); so, ἡ ἔχθρη ἡ προσοφειλομένη ἐς Ἀθηναίους ἐκ τῶν Αἰγινητέων the hatred which was still due from the Aeginetans to the Athenians, i. e. their ancient feud, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)

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GREEK · G8725

περίειμι

perieimi — to remain over

1. to be around a place, with dative, (Thucydides); τὰ περιόντα circumstances , (Demosthenes Orator) 2. to be better than, superior to another, surpass, excel , with genitive, (Iliad by Homer); περίεσσι γυναικῶν εἶδός τε μέγεθός τε (Odyssey by Homer); οἳ περὶ μὲν βουλὴν Δαναῶν περὶ δd ἐστὲ μάχεσθαι λπαρr εθυαλσs μάχην)) (Iliad by Homer); with dative rei, σοφίᾳ π. τῶν Ἑλλήνων (Plato Philosophus): absolute to be superior , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.; ἐκ περιόντος at an advantage , (Thucydides) 3. to overlive, outlive , τινι (Herdotus Historicus): absolute to survive, remain alive , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.:—;of things, to be extant, to be in existence , (Herdotus Historicus) 4. to be over and above, to remain in hand , of property, money, etc., (Thucydides); οἰόμενοι περιεῖναι χρήματά τῳ imagining that any one has a balance in his hands, (Demosthenes Orator) 5. to be a result or consequence , περίεστιν ὑμῖν ἐκ τούτων what you have got by all this is . ., (Demosthenes Orator); τοσοῦτον ὑμῖν περίεστιν τοῦ πρὸς ἐμὲ μίσους you have so much hatred against me left , Philipp. quoted in (Demosthenes Orator); with infinitive, περίεστι ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς ἐρίζειν it remains for you to quarrel with them, (Demosthenes Orator) (ML)

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Historical dictionary entry

Among the works of the flesh (Gal. 5:20). Altogether different is the meaning of the word in Deut. 21:15; Matt. 6:24; Luke 14:26; Rom. 9:13, where it denotes only a less degree of love.

Scripture references

Galatians 5:20Deuteronomy 21:15Matthew 6:24Luke 14:26Romans 9:13

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

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