ἘΧΘΡΟΝ, ἐχθρον
ECHTHRON, echthron
Sounds Like: ekh-THRON
Translations: enemy, an enemy, hostile, an opponent, hateful
From the root: ἘΧΘΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is hostile, adversarial, or an opponent. It can be used as an adjective to describe a person or thing as 'hostile' or 'hateful', or it can function as a noun, meaning 'an enemy' or 'an adversary'. In the provided examples, it is used as a noun referring to an enemy.
Inflection: Singular, Masculine, Accusative
Strong’s number: G2189 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 3:25
- Book 4 — 8:190
- Book 6 — 8:156, 11:219, 11:227, 13:278, 13:279, 13:281, 13:284
- Book 7 — 1:43, 2:49, 5:107
- Book 9 — 4:53, 14:282
- Book 11 — 6:212
- Book 13 — 8:232
- Book 14 — 14:382
- Book 17 — 9:238
- Book 19 — 2:177
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 93:4
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 6:25
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 24:8, 24:10
- Deuteronomy — 23:14, 33:27
- Judges — 16:23, 16:24
- 1 Samuel — 14:24, 19:17, 22:8, 22:13, 24:5, 24:20, 26:8
- Psalms — 8:3, 9:4, 41:10, 42:2
- Proverbs — 20:12
- Job — 19:11
- Sirach — 20:23, 27:18, 29:6, 30:3, 33:9
- Jeremiah — 15:11
- Lamentations — 2:17
- Hosea — 8:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 1:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΧΘΡΟΣ.
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.
- ἘΧΘΙΣΤΑ — most hostile, most hateful, most hostilely, most hatefully
- ἘΧΘΙΣΤΗ — most hostile, a most hostile, most hateful, a most hateful, most inimical, a most inimical
- ἘΧΘΙΣΤΟΙΣ — to the most hostile, to the most hated, to the greatest enemies
- ἘΧΘΙΣΤΟΣ — most hostile, most hateful, most inimical, greatest enemy
- ἘΧΘΙΣΤΟΥΣ — most hostile, most hateful, greatest enemies
- ἘΧΘΙΣΤΩΝ — of most hostile, of most hateful, of most hostile ones, of most hateful ones
- ἘΧΘΡΕ — enemy, hostile, a foe
- ἘΧΘΡΕΥΣΩ — I will be an enemy, I will show hostility, I will make an enemy of
- ἘΧΘΡΟΙ — enemies, foes, adversaries
- ἘΧΘΡΟΙΣ — to enemies, to foes
- ἘΧΘΡΟΝἨ — enemy, hostile, an enemy, a hostile one
- ἘΧΘΡΟΣ — enemy, an enemy, hostile, hateful
- ἘΧΘΡΟΤΑΤΑ — most hostilely, most bitterly, most hatefully
- ἘΧΘΡΟΤΑΤΗΝ — most hostile, a most hostile, most hateful, a most hateful, most inimical, a most inimical
- ἘΧΘΡΟΤΑΤΟΣ — most hostile, most hateful, most hated, most inimical, most adversarial
- ἘΧΘΡΟΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most hostile, most hateful, most inimical, most adversarial
- ἘΧΘΡΟΥ — of an enemy, of a foe, of an adversary
- ἘΧΘΡΟΥΣ — enemies, foes
- ἘΧΘΡΩ — (to) an enemy, (to) the enemy, (to) an adversary, (to) the adversary
- ἘΧΘΡΩΝ — of enemies, enemies
- ἘΧΘΡΩΣ — hostilely, as an enemy, with hostility, in a hostile manner
- ἘΧΤΡΩΝ — of enemies, of foes
- ΤΟΥΣἘΧΘΡΟΥΣ — the enemies, enemies
- ΤΩΝἘΧΘΡΩΝ — (of) the enemies, (of) enemies
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