English Bible words starting with E
525 meanings beginning with E, in alphabetical order. This is page 4 of 6. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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envoy2 words
- lutsלִיץto mediate through speech; a go-between who carries words across a gap: an interpreter, envoy, or advocate
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- to mock with proud contempt; a scoffer who sneers at correction
- tsirצִירan envoy: a person formally dispatched with a message on someone else's authority, most often between rulers or nations
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- a hinge: the pivot a door swings on
- a writhing pang: the seizing, doubling-over pain of labor, or that same pain brought on by dread
- lutsלִיץto mediate through speech; a go-between who carries words across a gap: an interpreter, envoy, or advocate
envy8 words
- zēloōζηλόωto burn with intense feeling for someone or something: to be zealous or jealously devoted, to set your heart eagerly on it, or, on its dark side, to envy.
- zēlosζῆλοςburning devotion: an intense, heated ardor for someone or something held dear
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- jealousy: a resentful, rivalrous heat that begrudges others and breeds conflict
- qinahקִנְאָהa burning, possessive intensity of feeling stirred when something one claims as one's own is threatened, rivaled, or surpassed
- qanaקָנָאto burn with feeling over an exclusive claim: to be jealous, zealous, or envious depending on whether the claim is rightful and how it is expressed
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- to provoke someone to jealousy: to stir up another's jealous anger, used of Israel goading God with rival worship
- phthonosφθόνοςenvy: bitter ill will at another person's good, wanting them stripped of it rather than wanting it for yourself
enwrap3 words
- atahעָטָהto wrap oneself in a covering, or to drape a covering over: to enfold, cover, or clothe.
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- to grip or seize firmly: to take tight hold of.
- alaphעָלַףto cover something over: to overlay a surface, or to draw a covering close around a body
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- to grow faint: to be overcome until strength fails and the body gives way
- eneileōἐνειλέωto enwrapnot studied yet
- atahעָטָהto wrap oneself in a covering, or to drape a covering over: to enfold, cover, or clothe.
Epaenetus1 word
Epaphras1 word
Epaphroditus1 word
ephah2 words
Ephai1 word
Epher1 word
Ephes-dammim1 word
Ephesian1 word
Ephesus1 word
Ephlal1 word
ephod3 words
ephraim2 words
ephraimites1 word
Ephrath1 word
Ephron1 word
Epicurean1 word
epileptic1 word
epistle1 word
equal3 words
- isosἴσοςequal: the same as something else in measure, in worth, or in standing
- shavahשָׁוָהto be or make even: to be equal or comparable to something, worth as much as it, or to level a thing out.
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- to set, place, or lay something in position, or lay it upon someone.
- takhanתָּכַןto weigh or measure something against a fixed standard: to mete out a quantity, gauge a person's true worth, or come out right when tested
equality1 word
equally valuable1 word
equip1 word
equity2 words
- mishorמִישׁוֹרa plain: level, open ground as opposed to hills, and especially the high tableland east of the Jordan
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- levelness as a way of life: a straight and safe course, and upright, even-handed dealing
- mesharמֵישָׁרuprightness: the quality of being straight and even, shown as fair dealing, honest speech, or a smooth, unobstructed course
- mishorמִישׁוֹרa plain: level, open ground as opposed to hills, and especially the high tableland east of the Jordan
Er2 words
Eran1 word
Erastus1 word
Erech1 word
Eri1 word
err3 words
- planaōπλανάωto lead someone off the right path, or (when it happens to you) to stray from it: literally to wander, and almost always to be deceived away from the truth.
- ta'ahתָּעָהto stray from the right course: to wander off and lose the way, or to be led off it
- shagahשָׁגָהto go astray: to wander off the right course, whether on a path, in conduct, or through the loss of steady judgment
error7 words
- shegagahשְׁגָגָהan unintended wrong: something done by accident, oversight, or a slip rather than on purpose
- planēπλάνηstraying from the truth: the wrong road a person ends up on, and the misleading that puts them there
- agnoēmaἀγνόημαerrornot studied yet
- to'ahתּוֹעָהerrornot studied yet
- meshugahמְשׁוּגָהerrornot studied yet
errors1 word
Esarhaddon1 word
esau2 words
escape14 words
- pheugōφεύγωto flee: to move fast away from something dangerous, whether to save yourself, to get clear of it, or to keep well away from it
- nusנוּסto flee: to run from danger, whether to escape it or to reach safety
- malatמָלַטto get safely out of danger, or to get someone else safely out: to escape, or to rescue
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- to bring forth young, to give birth: to let a child or egg slip out into the world
- diasōzōδιασῴζωto bring someone safely through a deadly danger and out the other side of it
- baraḥבָּרַחto flee: to break away and run, usually a deliberate escape from danger or from someone with power over you
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- to reach across, to pass straight through from one end to the other
escape notice1 word
escaped1 word
escort1 word
Esek1 word
Eshan1 word
Eshbaal1 word
Eshban1 word
Eshcol1 word
Eshek1 word
Eshtaol1 word
Eshtemoa1 word
Eshton1 word
Esli1 word
especially1 word
espousals1 word
espoused1 word
essence1 word
- hupostasisὑπόστασιςthe real being or substance of something: what it actually is beneath how it appears
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- a firm, settled confidence: assurance held onto without wavering
- an undertaking or venture being carried through: a concrete plan one has committed to
- hupostasisὑπόστασιςthe real being or substance of something: what it actually is beneath how it appears
establish12 words
- histēmiἵστημιto set, to place: to make someone or something stand in a position, and so to set up, present, appoint, or establish it
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- to stand: to be on one's feet, to be positioned somewhere, or to hold one's ground
- qumקוּםto rise up, stand, and stay standing, and to raise up or make something stand, the whole arc from getting to one's feet to bringing a covenant or kingdom into lasting force
- amadעָמַדto stand: to be on one's feet and in place, and so to take up a position, come to a halt, or wait there on someone
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- to remain: to keep standing over time, and so to last, to hold one's ground, or to be valid rather than fall
- to arise: to come onto the scene and take one's place, as a king coming to power
- to set up: to make something or someone stand, and so to erect, station, appoint, present, or confirm
- banahבָּנָהto build: to raise a structure out of parts and materials, and so to establish something meant to stand.
- kunכּוּןto be firm or to make firm: to be set solidly in place and lasting, or to set something solidly in place so it stands, endures, and is ready for its purpose.
- histēmiἵστημιto set, to place: to make someone or something stand in a position, and so to set up, present, appoint, or establish it
established1 word
- amanאָמַןto be firm, steady, and reliable, so that a person or thing can be counted on
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- to believe, to trust, to put confidence in someone or something
- to support and care for a child as a guardian, foster-parent, or nurse
- amanאָמַןto be firm, steady, and reliable, so that a person or thing can be counted on
estate2 words
esteem2 words
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
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- to consider: to reach a deliberate, weighed verdict about the worth or truth of something
- ḥashavחָשַׁבto think something over: to consider, weigh, and form a judgment in the mind
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- to reckon: to count something toward an account and treat it as having that value
- to devise: to plan or scheme toward an end, good or harmful
- to design: to invent and work out skilled craft or artistic plans
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
esteemed2 words
- dokimosδόκιμοςproven genuine by testing: having withstood examination and been accepted as the real thing, and so trustworthy and esteemed.
- yaqarיָקַרto be worth a great deal: to count as valuable, whether treasured by someone who will not give it up or expensive because the price is high
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- to make something scarce: to thin it out, or to hold it back so that it comes only rarely
Esther1 word
estimation1 word
- erekhעֵרֶךְan ordered arrangement: things set out in place, laid out in proper order
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- an assessed value: a set amount of worth fixed on a person or thing by a standard
- erekhעֵרֶךְan ordered arrangement: things set out in place, laid out in proper order
estranged1 word
estrous1 word
Etam1 word
eternal4 words
- aiōnαἰώνan age: a stretch of time, from a bounded era to unending duration, and the world seen as the present order running its course
- olamעוֹלָםthe farthest horizon of time a speaker can see: the remotest past, the unending future, or simply forever, with the direction and the distance set by what is being talked about
- aiōniosαἰώνιοςbelonging to the age to come, and so without end: everlasting, eternal
- aidiosἀΐδιοςeternalnot studied yet
eternal life1 word
- zōēζωήthe life that comes from God and never ends: real, full, unending life, often called eternal life.
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- life as opposed to death: the condition of being alive, the span of a person's existence.
- zōēζωήthe life that comes from God and never ends: real, full, unending life, often called eternal life.
eternity2 words
Eth-kazin1 word
Etham1 word
Ethan1 word
Ethanim1 word
Ethbaal1 word
Ether1 word
ethiopia1 word
- kushכּוּשׁCush: the land along the Nile beyond Egypt's southern border, the kingdom and people who lived there, and the forefather whose name they carry
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- Cush, an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin named in the heading of a psalm and otherwise unknown
- kushכּוּשׁCush: the land along the Nile beyond Egypt's southern border, the kingdom and people who lived there, and the forefather whose name they carry
Ethiopian2 words
ethnan1 word
Ethni1 word
Eubulus1 word
Eunice1 word
eunuch2 words
- eunouchosεὐνοῦχοςa man who does not father children, whether castrated, born unable to, or unmarried by choice; also a title for a senior officer of a royal court
- sarisסָרִיסa eunuch: a man who has been castrated.
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- a court official: a trusted royal attendant or high officer in a king's service.
Euodia1 word
euphrates2 words
Eutychus1 word
evangelist1 word
eve2 words
eved1 word
- evedעֶבֶדEbed the father of Gaal: a man known only through his son, who led Shechem's short-lived revolt against Abimelech; the name is spelled with the everyday Hebrew word for a servant or slave
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- Ebed son of Jonathan: one of the family heads who travelled back to Jerusalem from Babylon with Ezra, bringing fifty men of the family of Adin
- evedעֶבֶדEbed the father of Gaal: a man known only through his son, who led Shechem's short-lived revolt against Abimelech; the name is spelled with the everyday Hebrew word for a servant or slave
even1 word
even as1 word
even to1 word
evening3 words
event1 word
ever4 words
ever-flowing1 word
everlasting4 words
- olamעוֹלָםthe farthest horizon of time a speaker can see: the remotest past, the unending future, or simply forever, with the direction and the distance set by what is being talked about
- aiōniosαἰώνιοςbelonging to the age to come, and so without end: everlasting, eternal
- adעַדthe unending future: time stretching ahead with no stopping point, so most often translated forever
- alamעָלַםthe farthest reach of time: unending future duration (forever, everlasting) or, less often, the distant past (of old); perpetuity.
evermore1 word
every3 words
every one1 word
everyday1 word
everyone1 word
everything3 words