Foes
Bible Usage:
- foes used 7 times.
- First Reference: 1 Chronicles 21:12
- Last Reference: Acts 2:35
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Foe
FOE, noun fo. [See Fiend.]
1. An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.
A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36.
2. An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.
Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes. 1 Chronicles 21:12.
3. foe like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.
4. An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.
FOE, verb transitive To treat as an enemy. obsolete