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Enmity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The quality of being an enemy; the opposite of friendship; ill will; hatred; unfriendly dispositions; malevolence. It expresses more than aversion and less than malice, and differs from displeasure in denoting a fixed or rooted hatred, whereas displeasure is more transient.

2. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Genesis 3:15 .

3. The carnal mind is enmity against God. Romans 8:7 .

4. A state of opposition.

5. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James 4:4 .

Enmity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

2. A state of opposition; hostility.

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12 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “enmity”

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Numbers 35:21

Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.

Numbers 35:22

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

Luke 23:12

And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

That day Herod and Pilate became friends; before this time they had been enemies.

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Ephesians 2:15

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

Ephesians 2:16

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

1 Esdras 5:50

And there were gathered unto them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon his own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.

Sirach 6:9

And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity, and strife will discover thy reproach.

Sirach 28:6

Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.

1 Maccabees 11:40

And lay sore upon him to deliver him this young Antiochus, that he might reign in his father’s stead: he told him therefore all that Demetrius had done, and how his men of war were at enmity with him, and there he remained a long season.