Bible Dictionary: Foes

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Greek

1947. epikouria -- aid, assistance
... Noun, Feminine Transliteration: epikouria Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-koo-ree'-ah)
Short Definition: help, aid Definition: succor (against foes), help, aid ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7790. shur -- perhaps enemy
... perhaps enemy. Transliteration: shur Phonetic Spelling: (shoor) Short Definition:
foes. Word Origin from shur Definition perhaps enemy NASB Word Usage foes (1). ...
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7796b. shorer -- (treacherous) watcher
... (treacherous) watcher. Transliteration: shorer Short Definition: foes. Word Origin
from shur Definition (treacherous) watcher NASB Word Usage foes (5). ...
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6120. aqeb -- overreacher
... 6119, 6120. aqeb. 6121 . overreacher. Transliteration: aqeb Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-kabe') Short Definition: foes. Word Origin from ...
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340. ayab -- to be hostile to
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to be hostile to NASB Word Usage enemies (196),
enemies' (2), enemy (79), enemy to your enemies (1), enemy's (1), foes (2). ...
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8130. sane -- to hate
... root Definition to hate NASB Word Usage detest (1), enemy (3), enmity (1), foes
(1), hate (78), hated (28), hated her intensely (1), hates (19), hating (2 ...
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6862c. tsar -- adversary, foe
... from tsarar Definition adversary, foe NASB Word Usage adversaries (40), adversary
(15), distresses (1), enemies (5), enemy (2), foe (1), foes (3), oppressors (2 ...
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Library

The Mistakes of Christ's Foes and Friends
... THE MISTAKES OF CHRIST'S FOES AND FRIENDS. 'And the scribes which came down
from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/the mistakes of christs foes.htm

November the Twenty-Ninth Transforming Our Foes
... NOVEMBER The Twenty-ninth TRANSFORMING OUR FOES. MATTHEW v.38-48. "Love your enemies.".
It must be the aim of a Christian to make his enemy lovely. ...
/.../november the twenty-ninth transforming our.htm

Anxieties and Troubles, Friends and Foes
... BOOK II CHAPTER XXI ANXIETIES AND TROUBLES, FRIENDS AND FOES. Insomnes longo
veniunt examine Curæ. Claud., In Ruf. i.38. Chrysostom's ...
/.../chapter xxi anxieties and troubles.htm

April the Twenty-Fifth the Hidden Foes
... APRIL The Twenty-fifth THE HIDDEN FOES. MATTHEW v.21-26. Our Lord always
leads us to the secret, innermost roots of things. He does ...
/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/april the twenty-fifth the hidden.htm

Internal Foes.
... THE OVERCOMING LIFE. PART II. INTERNAL FOES. Now if we are going to overcome,
we must begin inside. God always begins there. An ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/the overcoming life/part ii internal foes.htm

External Foes.
... THE OVERCOMING LIFE. PART III. EXTERNAL FOES. What are our enemies without?
What does James say? "Know ye not that the friendship ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/the overcoming life/part iii external foes.htm

To Queen Giovanna of Naples (Written in Trance)
... For our foes have no weapons with which they can hurt us. ... Which shall we call the
more cruel"the foes or the very person who receives the blow? ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to queen giovanna of naples.htm

"We have no Might. " 2 Chron. xx. 12
... It is well for us to know the strength of our foes, but let it not lead us to despair.
Who shall number the host of the foes against whom we must fight? ...
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The Songs of the Fugitive.
... He pours out first his plaint of the foes, who are described as "many," and as saying
that, "There is no help for him in God," words which fully correspond to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the life of david/xv the songs of the.htm

Prayer and vigilance
... of the imperative need of much praying, and of many kinds of praying, by him who,
fighting the good fight of faith, would win out, in the end, over all his foes ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xi prayer and vigilance.htm

Thesaurus

Foes (95 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Foes (95 Occurrences). Matthew 10:36 A man's foes
will be those of his own household. (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS RSV). ...
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Conqueror (2 Occurrences)
... Others may place their enemies in subjection; those here mentioned master
not only their foes, but themselves. Others destroy their ...
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Nebuchadrezzar (31 Occurrences)
... of Kings and Chronicles centered about his life, and he stands preeminent, along
with the Pharaohs of the oppression and the exodus, among the foes of the ...
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Purim (5 Occurrences)
... 12th month (8:9, 12), the day appointed in the first decree for their extermination,
the Jews should gather together and defend themselves against their foes. ...
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Period (43 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. JUDGES, PERIOD OF. I. SOURCES II. CHRONOLOGY III.
GENERAL POLITICAL SITUATION 1. The Canaanites 2. Foes Without IV. ...
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Pur (3 Occurrences)
... 12th month (8:9, 12), the day appointed in the first decree for their extermination,
the Jews should gather together and defend themselves against their foes. ...
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Ahab (85 Occurrences)
... Occupying a critical position at the best, with foes ever ready to take advantage
of any momentary weakness, the kingdom, during the reign of Ahab, was ...
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Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)
... of Kings and Chronicles centered about his life, and he stands preeminent, along
with the Pharaohs of the oppression and the exodus, among the foes of the ...
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Jude (4 Occurrences)
... It is needful to gaze with steady vision on the portrait Jude furnishes of these
depraved foes, if we are to appreciate in any measure the force of his ...
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Borrowing (1 Occurrence)
... or else by superhuman power. If the hands were human, they must have been
those of His friends or of His foes. If His friends had ...
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Bible Concordance

Foes (95 Occurrences)

Matthew 10:36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS RSV)

Matthew 22:44 "'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'?
(WEY)

Mark 12:36 David himself said, taught by the Holy Spirit, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I have made thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'
(WEY)

Luke 1:71 To deliver us from our foes and from the power of all who hate us.
(WEY)

Luke 1:74 To grant us to be rescued from the power of our foes And so render worship to Him free from fear,
(WEY)

Luke 19:43 For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side.
(WEY)

Luke 20:43 Until I have made thy foes a footstool under they feet.'
(WEY)

Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
(KJV WEY WBS YLT)

Hebrews 1:13 To which of the angels has He ever said, "Sit at My right hand till I make Thy foes a footstool for Thy feet"?
(WEY)

Revelation 11:5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
(See RSV)

Revelation 11:12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
(See RSV)

Numbers 10:35 It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!"
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 30:7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 33:7 This is the blessing of Judah: and he said, "Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries."
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 33:11 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again."
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 22:41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 22:49 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me."
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)

2 Kings 21:14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Esther 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
(See RSV)

Esther 9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
(KJV WBS)

Job 22:20 saying,'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' cities which are not inhabited.
(See NIV)

Psalms 3:1 A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 5:8 Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.
(DBY NAS)

Psalms 6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 8:2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
(See RSV)

Psalms 10:5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
(See RSV)

Psalms 13:4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
(See NIV)

Psalms 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
(See NIV)

Psalms 18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
(See NIV)

Psalms 18:48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
(See NIV)

Psalms 21:8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
(See NIV)

Psalms 25:19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
(See RSV)

Psalms 27:2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)

Psalms 27:11 Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
(See NAS)

Psalms 27:12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
(See NIV)

Psalms 30:1 A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David. I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)

Psalms 34:21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
(See NIV)

Psalms 35:19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
(See RSV)

Psalms 38:19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
(See RSV)

Psalms 41:2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
(See NIV)

Psalms 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
(See NIV)

Psalms 44:5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 44:7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
(See RSV)

Psalms 49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
(See NAS)

Psalms 54:5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
(See NAS)

Psalms 54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
(See NIV)

Psalms 56:2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
(See NAS)

Psalms 59:10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
(See NAS)

Psalms 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
(See RSV)

Psalms 68:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
(See NIV)

Psalms 68:23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."
(See NIV)

Psalms 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
(See NAS)

Psalms 69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
(See NIV)

Psalms 69:19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
(See RSV)

Psalms 72:9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
(See RSV)

Psalms 74:4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 74:23 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
(See RSV)

Psalms 81:14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 83:2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
(See NIV)

Psalms 89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
(KJV WBS RSV NIV)

Psalms 89:42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 92:11 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
(See NAS NIV)

Psalms 97:3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
(See NIV)

Psalms 105:24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
(See RSV NIV)

Psalms 106:41 He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.
(See NIV)

Psalms 108:13 Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
(See RSV)

Psalms 110:2 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.
(See RSV)

Psalms 112:8 His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
(See NIV)

Psalms 119:139 My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.
(See RSV)

Psalms 136:24 And has taken us out of the hands of our haters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
(See RSV)

Psalms 138:7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.
(See NIV)

Psalms 143:12 And in your mercy put an end to my haters, and send destruction on all those who are against my soul; for I am your servant.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 1:24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 9:11 For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;
(See NIV)

Isaiah 29:5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
(WEB JPS ASV RSV)

Isaiah 42:13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 59:18 He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 66:14 And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 21:7 Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
(See RSV)

Jeremiah 46:10 For that day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 49:37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;
(See NIV)

Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
(See RSV NIV)

Lamentations 1:17 Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
(See RSV NIV)

Lamentations 2:17 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
(See RSV NIV)

Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth didn't believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
(See NIV)

Micah 5:9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
(See NIV)

Nahum 1:2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
(See NIV)

Nahum 1:8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
(See NIV)

Nahum 1:9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
(See RSV)

Nahum 3:13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Foes

Related Terms

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Nebuchadrezzar (31 Occurrences)

Purim (5 Occurrences)

Period (43 Occurrences)

Pur (3 Occurrences)

Ahab (85 Occurrences)

Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)

Jude (4 Occurrences)

Borrowing (1 Occurrence)