# G2189 ἔχθρα

ἔχθρα (échthra), Strong’s G2189: hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition KJV: enmity, hatred. Occurs 29 times.

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*échthra* — hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition

KJV: enmity, hatred

Occurs 29 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 23:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/23?v=12) — Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
- [Romans 8:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/8?v=7) — because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s Torah, neither indeed can it be.
- [Galatians 5:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/5?v=20) — idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
- [Ephesians 2:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/ephesians/2?v=14) — For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,
- [Ephesians 2:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/ephesians/2?v=16) — and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
- [Jacob 4:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/4?v=4) — You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever…
- [1 Esdras 5:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/5?v=50) — Some people joined them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because…
- [Sirach 6:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/6?v=9) — And there is a friend who turns into an enemy. He will discover strife to your reproach.
- [Sirach 37:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/37?v=2) — Isn’t there a grief in it even to death when a companion and friend is turned into an enemy?
- [1 Maccabees 11:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/11?v=12) — Taking his daughter from him, he gave her to Demetrius, and was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity was openly…