Definition

hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition

Etymology

feminine of G2190 (ἐχθρός);

Word family

• ἐχθρός echthrós

How the KJV renders it

• enmity
• hatred

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.