ἐχθρός

ἐχθρός — echthrós

ἐχθρός, ἔχθρα, ἐχθρόν (ἔχθος hatred); the Sept. numberless times for אויֵב, also for צַר, several times for שׂונֵא and מְשַׂנֵּא, a hater;

1. passively, hated, odious, hateful (in Homer only in this sense): Rom 11:28 (opposed to ἀγαπητός).

2. actively, hostile, hating and opposing another: 1Co 15:25; 2Th 3:15; with the genitive of the person hated or opposed, Jas 4:4 Lachmann; Gal 4:16, cf. Meyer or Wieseler on the latter passage used of men as at enmity with God by their sin: Rom 5:10 (cf. Rom 8:7; Col 1:21; Jas 4:4) (but many take ἐχθρός here (as in, see 1 above) passively; cf. Meyer); τῇ διάνοια, opposing (God) in the mind, Col 1:21; ἐχθρός ἄνθρωπος, a man that is hostile, a certain enemy, Mat 13:28; ὁ ἐχθρός, the hostile one (well known to you), i. e. κατ' ἐξοχήν the devil, the most bitter enemy of the divine government: Luk 10:19, cf. Mat 13:39 (and ecclesiastical writings). ὁ ἐχθρός (and ἐχθρός) substantively, enemy (so the word, whether adjective or a substantive, is translated in A. V., except twice (R. V. once) foe: ἔσχατος ἐχθρός, 1Co 15:26): with the genitive of the person to whom one is hostile, Mat 5:43; Mat 10:36; Mat 13:25; Luk 1:1-80 :,;; Rom 12:20; Rev 11:5; Rev 11:12; in the words of Psa 109:1, quoted in Mat 22:44; Mar 12:36; Luk 20:43; Act 2:35; 1Co 15:25 (L brackets; others omit the genitive (see above)); Heb 1:13; Heb 10:13. with the genitive of the thing: Act 13:10; τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, who given up to their evil passions evade the obligations imposed upon them by the death of Christ, Php 3:18.