ἔχθρα échthra
Meaning
hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition
In the King James Version: enmity, hatred
Derivation: feminine of G2190 (ἐχθρός);
Where it is used
- Luke 23:12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends; before this time they had been enemies.
- Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Galatians 5:20 idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
- Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
- Ephesians 2:16 and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.
- James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.