ἘΧΘΡΕΥΣΑΙ, ἐχθρευσαι
ECHTHREUSAI, echthreusai
Sounds Like: ekh-THREH-oo-sai
Translations: to be an enemy, to show oneself an enemy, to make an enemy of
From the root: ἘΧΘΡΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb 'echthreuo'. It means 'to be an enemy' or 'to show oneself as an enemy'. It describes the action of acting hostilely or becoming an adversary towards someone. For example, one might 'be an enemy' to another person or 'make an enemy of' a group.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2189 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 10:26
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΧΘΡΕΥΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΧΘΡΕΥΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will be hostile, they will show hostility, they will make an enemy of, they will treat as an enemy
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