שִׂנְאָה
sin.ah
hating
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word שִׂנְאָה (sin.ah) is a noun that means "hating". Its definition is straightforward and indicates a negative emotional state directed towards someone or something. With 17 occurrences in the Bible, it shows a significant scope of usage across various contexts. The frequency of occurrences and its definition suggest that שִׂנְאָה is a strong and intense disposition, likely implying a deep-seated or long-standing aversion. Its range of usage encompasses personal emotions, relationships, and social dynamics, indicating its significance in human interactions. However, without further context or analysis, it is not possible to specify the extent to which this emotion is mutual, reciprocated, or unilateral.
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Occurrences in Scripture
17 total occurrences across the text
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 139:22I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Psalms 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:5They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Proverbs 10:12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Proverbs 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
Proverbs 26:26His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Ezekiel 23:29They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
Ezekiel 35:11therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.
Numbers 35:20If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
Deuteronomy 1:27You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
Deuteronomy 9:28lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
2 Samuel 13:15Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
2 Samuel 13:15Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”