אֹיֵב ʼôyêb

Meaning

hating; an adversary

In the King James Version: enemy, foe.

Derivation: or (fully) אוֹיֵב; active participle of H340 (אָיַב);

Where it is used

• 1 Chronicles 22:9 But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
• 2 Chronicles 6:24 When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
• 2 Chronicles 6:28 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
• 2 Chronicles 6:34 When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
• 2 Chronicles 6:36 When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,
• 2 Chronicles 20:27 Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.
• 2 Chronicles 20:29 And the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
• 2 Chronicles 26:13 Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
• Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
• Ezra 8:31 On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.
• Nehemiah 4:15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
• Nehemiah 5:9 So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
• Nehemiah 6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
• Nehemiah 6:16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.
• Nehemiah 9:28 But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.
• Esther 7:6 Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
• Esther 8:13 A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
• Esther 9:1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
• Esther 9:5 The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
• Esther 9:16 The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
• Esther 9:22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
• Job 13:24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
• Job 27:7 May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
• Job 33:10 Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
• Psalms 3:7 Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
• Psalms 6:10 All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
• Psalms 7:5 then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
• Psalms 8:2 From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
• Psalms 9:3 When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
• Psalms 9:6 The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
• Psalms 13:2 How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
• Psalms 13:4 lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.
• Psalms 17:9 from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.
• Psalms 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.
• Psalms 18:17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
• Psalms 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
• Psalms 18:40 You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.
• Psalms 18:48 who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
• Psalms 21:8 Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
• Psalms 25:2 in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
• Psalms 25:19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
• Psalms 27:2 When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
• Psalms 27:6 Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.
• Psalms 30:1 A Psalm. A song for the dedication of the temple. Of David. I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.
• Psalms 31:8 You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
• Psalms 31:15 My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
• Psalms 35:19 Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
• Psalms 37:20 But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
• Psalms 38:19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
• Psalms 41:2 The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to give him over to the will of his foes.
• Psalms 41:5 My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
• Psalms 41:11 By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
• Psalms 42:9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
• Psalms 43:2 For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
• Psalms 44:16 at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
• Psalms 45:5 Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
• Psalms 54:7 For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.
• Psalms 55:3 at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster upon me and resent me in their anger.
• Psalms 55:12 For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.