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Koine Greek wordlink #128762

SR GNT Eph 2:16 ἔχθραν (eⱪthran) ‘stake having killed_off the enmity by it’ Strongs=21890 Lemma=eχthra
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἔχθραν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔχθραν’ (N-AFS) is always and only glossed as ‘enmity’.

Eph 2:14 ‘fence having broken the enmity in the flesh’ SR GNT Eph 2:14 word 19

OET-LV: 14 For/Because he is the peace of _us, the one having _made which both one, and the dividing _wall of _the fence having _broken, the enmity in the flesh of _him, (EPH_2:14)

OET-RV: 14 He is the source of peace between Jews and non-Jews, having broken the dividing wall that fenced them apart and making the two into one. He took the hostility onto himself, (EPH 2:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘eχthra’ have 2 different glosses: ‘enmities’, ‘enmity’.

Greek words (3) other than ἔχθραν (N-AFS) with a gloss related to ‘enmity’

LUKE 23:12 ἔχθρᾳ (eⱪthra) N-DFS ‘they were previously_starting for at enmity being with themselves’ SR GNT Luke 23:12 word 30

OET-LV: 12 And on same the day the both Haʸrōdaʸs and the Pilatos became friends with one _another, because/for they _were _previously _starting being at enmity with themselves. (LUK_23:12)

OET-RV: 12 After that day, Herod and Pilate became friends with each other. (Before then they’d opposed each other.) (LUK 23:12)

ROM 8:7 ἔχθρα (eⱪthra) N-NFS ‘mindset of the flesh is enmity toward god to the’ SR GNT Rom 8:7 word 6

OET-LV: 7 Because the mindset of _the flesh is enmity toward god, because/for to _the law of_ the _god not it _is _being _subjected, because/for not _even it _is _able. (ROM_8:7)

OET-RV: 7 The worldly mindset is making God your enemy because it’s not being subjected to God’s law, in fact it’s not even able to, (ROM 8:7)

YAC 4:4 ἔχθρα (eⱪthra) N-NFS ‘friendship with the world enmity of god is whoever’ SR GNT Yac 4:4 word 12

OET-LV: 4 Adultresses. Not you _all _have _known that the friendship with _the world, enmity the of_god is? Whoever therefore if may _be _wished a_friend to _be of _the world, an_enemy of_ the _god is _being _appointed. (JAM_4:4)

OET-RV: 4 You’re just like prostitutes. Don’t you realise that if you befriend the world then you’re opposing God, so anyone who befriends the world makes themself an enemy of God. (JAM 4:4)

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular DFS=dative,feminine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular