אֹיֵבʼôyêb
be hostile to
Pronunciation: o-yabe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H341
Meanings
Qal: be hostile to, treat as enemy (Exodus 23:22; Exodus 15:6; 2 Samuel 22:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 282 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 22:17 I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.
- Genesis 49:8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck. All your relatives will bow before you.
- Exodus 15:6 “Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord, smashes the enemy.
- Exodus 15:9 “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’
- Exodus 23:4 “If you come upon your enemy’s ox or donkey that has strayed away, take it back to its owner.
- Exodus 23:22 But if you are careful to obey him, following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will oppose those who oppose you.
See every passage
- Genesis 22:17, 49:8
- Exodus 15:6, 15:9, 23:4, 23:22, 23:27
- Leviticus 26:7, 26:8, 26:16, 26:17, 26:25, 26:32, 26:34, 26:36, 26:37, 26:38, 26:39, 26:41, 26:44
- Numbers 10:9, 10:35, 14:42, 23:11, 24:10, 24:18, 32:21, 35:23
- Deuteronomy 1:42, 6:19, 12:10, 20:1, 20:3, 20:4, 20:14, 21:10, 23:9, 23:14, 25:19, 28:7, 28:25, 28:31, 28:48, 28:53, 28:55, 28:57, 28:68, 30:7, 32:27, 32:31, 32:42, 33:27, 33:29
- Joshua 7:8, 7:12, 7:13, 10:13, 10:19, 10:25, 21:44, 22:8, 23:1
- Judges 2:14, 2:18, 3:28, 5:31, 8:34, 11:36, 16:23, 16:24
- 1 Samuel 2:1, 4:3, 12:10, 12:11, 14:24, 14:30, 14:47, 18:25, 18:29, 19:17, 20:15, 20:16, 24:4, 24:19, 25:22, 25:26, 25:29, 26:8, 29:8, 30:26
- 2 Samuel 3:18, 4:8, 5:20, 7:1, 7:9, 7:11, 12:14, 18:19, 18:32, 19:9, 22:1, 22:4, 22:18, 22:38, 22:41, 22:49
- 1 Kings 3:11, 8:33, 8:37, 8:44, 8:46, 8:48, 21:20
- 2 Kings 17:39, 21:14
- 1 Chronicles 14:11, 17:8, 17:10, 21:12, 22:9
- 2 Chronicles 6:24, 6:28, 6:34, 6:36, 20:27, 20:29, 25:8, 26:13
- Ezra 8:22, 8:31
- Nehemiah 4:15, 5:9, 6:1, 6:16, 9:28
- Esther 7:6, 8:13, 9:1, 9:5, 9:16, 9:22
- Job 13:24, 27:7, 33:10
- Psalms 3:7, 6:10, 7:5, 8:2, 9:3, 9:6, 13:2, 13:4, 17:9, 18:0, 18:3, 18:17, 18:37, 18:40, 18:48, 21:8, 25:2, 25:19, 27:2, 27:6, 30:1, 31:8, 31:15, 35:19, 37:20, 38:19, 41:2, 41:5, 41:11, 42:9, 43:2, 44:16, 45:5, 54:7, 55:3, 55:12, 56:9, 59:1, 61:3, 64:1, 66:3, 68:1, 68:21, 68:23, 69:4, 69:18, 71:10, 72:9, 74:3, 74:10, 74:18, 78:53, 80:6, 81:14, 83:2, 89:10, 89:22, 89:42, 89:51, 92:9, 102:8, 106:10, 106:42, 110:1, 110:2, 119:98, 127:5, 132:18, 138:7, 139:22, 143:3, 143:9, 143:12
- Proverbs 16:7, 24:17
- Isaiah 1:24, 9:11, 42:13, 59:18, 62:8, 63:10, 66:6, 66:14
- Jeremiah 6:25, 12:7, 15:9, 15:11, 15:14, 17:4, 18:17, 19:7, 19:9, 20:4, 20:5, 21:7, 30:14, 31:16, 34:20, 34:21, 44:30, 49:37
- Lamentations 1:2, 1:5, 1:9, 1:16, 1:21, 2:3, 2:4, 2:5, 2:7, 2:16, 2:17, 2:22, 3:46, 3:52, 4:12
- Ezekiel 36:2, 39:27
- Hosea 8:3
- Amos 9:4
- Micah 2:8, 4:10, 5:9, 7:6, 7:8, 7:10
- Nahum 1:2, 1:8, 3:11, 3:13
- Zephaniah 3:15
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).