Occurrences
ʼôyêb occurs 281 times in 274 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (5), Leviticus (13), Numbers (8), Deuteronomy (25), Joshua (9), Judges (8), 1 Samuel (20), 2 Samuel (16), 1 Kings (7), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (8), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (5), Esther (6), Job (3), Psalms (72), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (8), Jeremiah (18), Lamentations (15), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Micah (6), Nahum (4), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies (אֹיְבָֽיו);
- Genesis 49:8 — Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ); thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
- Exodus 15:6 — Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy (אוֹיֵֽב).
- Exodus 15:9 — The enemy (אוֹיֵ֛ב) said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Exodus 23:4 — If thou meet thine enemy’s (אֹֽיִבְךָ֛) ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- Exodus 23:22 — But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies (אֹ֣יְבֶ֔יךָ), and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
- Exodus 23:27 — I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֛יךָ) turn their backs unto thee.
- Leviticus 26:7 — And ye shall chase your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם), and they shall fall before you by the sword.
- Leviticus 26:8 — And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֛ם) shall fall before you by the sword.
- Leviticus 26:16 — I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם) shall eat it.
- Leviticus 26:17 — And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם): they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
- Leviticus 26:25 — And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy (אוֹיֵֽב).
- Leviticus 26:32 — And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies (אֹֽיְבֵיכֶ֔ם) which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:34 — Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם)’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:36 — And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies (אֹיְבֵיהֶ֑ם); and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Leviticus 26:37 — And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies (אֹֽיְבֵיכֶֽם).
- Leviticus 26:38 — And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם) shall eat you up.
- Leviticus 26:39 — And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם)’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
- Leviticus 26:41 — And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies (אֹיְבֵיהֶ֑ם); if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
- Leviticus 26:44 — And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies (אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֗ם), I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
- Numbers 10:9 — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies (מֵאֹיְבֵיכֶֽם).
- Numbers 10:35 — And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies (אֹֽיְבֶ֔יךָ) be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
- Numbers 14:42 — Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם).
- Numbers 23:11 — And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies (אֹיְבַי֙), and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
- Numbers 24:10 — And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies (אֹֽיְבַי֙), and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
- Numbers 24:18 — And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies (אֹיְבָ֑יו); and Israel shall do valiantly.
- Numbers 32:21 — And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies (אֹיְבָ֖יו) from before him,
- Numbers 35:23 — Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy (אוֹיֵ֣ב), neither sought his harm:
- Deuteronomy 1:42 — And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם).
- Deuteronomy 6:19 — To cast out all thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֖יךָ) from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
- Deuteronomy 12:10 — But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֛ם) round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
- Deuteronomy 20:1 — When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֗יךָ), and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 20:3 — And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם): let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
- Deuteronomy 20:4 — For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies (אֹיְבֵיכֶ֖ם), to save you.
- Deuteronomy 20:14 — But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֔יךָ), which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
- Deuteronomy 21:10 — When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ), and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
- Deuteronomy 23:9 — When the host goeth forth against thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ), then keep thee from every wicked thing.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 — For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙) before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
- Deuteronomy 25:19 — Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies (אֹ֨יְבֶ֜יךָ) round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
- Deuteronomy 28:7 — The LORD shall cause thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙) that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 — The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies (אֹיְבֶיךָ֒): thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:31 — Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies (לְאֹיְבֶ֔יךָ), and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
- Deuteronomy 28:48 — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֗יךָ) which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 — And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies (אֹיְבֶֽךָ) shall distress thee:
- Deuteronomy 28:55 — So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies (אֹיִבְךָ֖) shall distress thee in all thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:57 — And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy (אֹיִבְךָ֖) shall distress thee in thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 28:68 — And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies (לְאֹיְבֶ֛יךָ) for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
- Deuteronomy 30:7 — And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies (אֹיְבֶ֥יךָ), and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
- Deuteronomy 32:27 — Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy (אוֹיֵב֙), lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
- Deuteronomy 32:31 — For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies (וְאֹיְבֵ֖ינוּ) themselves being judges.