שָׂנֵא
sânêʼ · saw-nay'
to hate (personally)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to hate (personally)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, [idiom] utterly.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the seed, life continuing › strength, the leader
To consume, to destroy of the seed, life continuing of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׂנֵא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
146 occurrences · 146 OT · 0 NT · 122 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hate7 · 10%
- them that hate6 · 9%
- hateth6 · 9%
- i hate5 · 7%
- hated4 · 6%
- and hated3 · 4%
- but he that hateth3 · 4%
- and they that hate3 · 4%
- that hate3 · 4%
- they that hate3 · 4%
- but i hate2 · 3%
- of the hated2 · 3%
- and hatest2 · 3%
- of him that hated2 · 3%
- i have hated2 · 3%
- is hated2 · 3%
- to hate2 · 3%
- that hated2 · 3%
- generation of them that hate2 · 3%
- and they hated1 · 1%
- they hated1 · 1%
- that i was hated1 · 1%
- was hated1 · 1%
- ye to me, seeing ye hate1 · 1%
- of those which hate1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.