- Transliteration: Echthros

- Phonetic: ech-thros'

- Definition:

1. hated, odious, hateful

2. hostile, hating, and opposing another

a. used of men as at enmity with God by their sin

1. opposing (God) in the mind

2. a man that is hostile

3. a certain enemy

4. the hostile one

5. the devil who is the most bitter enemy of the divine government

- Origin: "from a primary echtho (to hate); hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile)"

- TDNT entry: 15:31,3

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: From a primary word ἔχθω echthō (to hate); hateful (passively odious or actively hostile); usually as a noun an adversary (especially Satan): - enemy foe.