Lexical Summary ayab: to be hostile to Original Word: אָיַבTransliteration: ayab Phonetic Spelling: (aw-yab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be hostile to Meaning: to be hostile to Strong's Concordance be an enemy A primitive root; to hate (as one of an opposite tribe or party); hence to be hostile -- be an enemy. Brown-Driver-Briggs H340. ayab [אָיַב]283 verb be hostile to (Assyrian aibu (see Dlw), enemy = אֹיֵב) — Qal Perfect וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י Exodus 23:22; Participle אוֺיֵב (אֹיֵב) 15:6 +; suffix (אוֺיְבִי)אֹיְבִי) 2 Samuel 22:18 = Psalm 18:18 +; feminine suffix אֹיַבְתִּי Micah 7:8, 10; אֹיִבְךָ Exodus 23:4 +, etc.; plural אֹויְבִים Psalm 68:24; 127:5; אֹיְבִים 139:22, etc.; — be hostile to, treat as enemy Exodus 23:22 (E, Cov't code) אֶתצֹֿרְרֶיךָ וְצַרְתִּ֫י אֶתאֹֿיְבֶיךָ וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י (subject ׳י); elsewhere Participle 1 Samuel 18:29 אֶתדָּֿוִד אֹיֵב שָׁאוּל וַיְהִי; usually as substantive & mostly suffix; enemy, of personal foe Exodus 23:4 (E "" שׂנֵא 23:5) Numbers 35:23 (P) 1 Samuel 19:17 (compare 18:29) 24:5; 24:20; 2 Samuel 4:8; 1 Kings 21:20; Job 27:7; Psalm 54:9; Psalm 55:13 ("" מְשַׂנֵּא; opposed to מְיֻדָּע אַלּוּף, 55:14) Micah 2:8; Proverbs 16:7; 24:17 +; in simile Jeremiah 30:14 (אוֺיֵב מַכַּת); of public national enemy, singular Judges 16:23-24, collective Exodus 15:6, 9; Deuteronomy 33:27; Nahum 3:11; 2 Chronicles 6:24 +; personified Micah 7:8, 10; more often plural Exodus 23:22 (E) Leviticus 26:7 f (H) Numbers 10:9 (P) Deuteronomy 1:42; 6:19; Jeremiah 15:9; 34:20-21, +; of enemies of God, as protector of his people Numbers 10:35 (J) Judges 5:31; 1 Samuel 30:26; 2 Samuel 18:19; Psalm 66:3; 68:1; 68:22; Nahum 1:2, 8; Isaiah 66:6 +; as morally supreme Job 13:24; 33:10; Psalm 37:20; 92:10 (twice in verse) +; of God as enemy of rebellious people Isaiah 63:10, in simile Lamentations 2:4-5,. |
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