enemy
Echthros identifies a hostile opponent, whether a person, a group, or an opposing power.
The term most often identifies people or groups set in opposition to someone, including those whom hearers are commanded to love. It also marks an adversarial standing toward God, righteousness, or the cross, and can designate death, the devil, or an opposing power as hostile.
Senses in use
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Hostile people or groups · dominant
The accusative plural form identifies those toward whom love and good action are directed in Luke 6:27 and Luke 6:35; in Luke 6:27 the APB renders the command, "Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you." The same plural form names opponents placed beneath another's feet in Acts 2:35 and Matthew 22:44, while Matthew 10:36 applies the nominative plural form to members of a man's household.
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Those in an adversarial standing · common
In Galatians 4:16, the nominative singular form is used of becoming "your enemy" through telling the truth, as the APB renders the clause. Colossians 1:21 and Romans 5:10 use plural forms for people formerly described as alienated or reconciled to God, while James 4:4 calls the friend of the world an enemy of God in the APB's rendering.
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Hostile power or figure · occasional
The nominative singular form names death as the final opposing reality to be abolished in 1 Corinthians 15:26. In Matthew 13:25 and Matthew 13:39, it identifies the one who sows weeds, whom the APB later identifies as "the devil"; Luke 10:19 likewise speaks of authority over the power of "the enemy."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB usually presents the term with "enemy" or "enemies," including opponents to be loved, people in hostile relation, and death or the devil as opposition. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, its wording only confirms the clauses' overall adversarial setting.