'Hated' in the Bible

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.

Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

Then his brothers said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”

otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.

Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.”

David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” Therefore they say, “The blind or the lame shall not come into the house.”

Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up, go away!”

But Absalom did not speak to Amnon either good or bad; for Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar.

“He delivered me from my strong enemy,From those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

“You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,And I destroyed those who hated me.

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.

Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces assembled, to defend their lives and rid themselves of their enemies, and kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

He delivered me from my strong enemy,And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,And I destroyed those who hated me.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;Therefore God, Your God, has anointed YouWith the oil of joy above Your fellows.

So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them,And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Then He gave them into the hand of the nations,And those who hated them ruled over them.

Because they hated knowledgeAnd did not choose the fear of the Lord.

And you say, “How I have hated instruction!And my heart spurned reproof!

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,And a man of evil devices is hated.

The poor is hated even by his neighbor,But those who love the rich are many.

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

“Whereas you have been forsaken and hatedWith no one passing through,I will make you an everlasting pride,A joy from generation to generation.

therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.

but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”

You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

You will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

and you will be hated by all because of My name.

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

“You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;Therefore God, Your God, has anointed YouWith the oil of gladness above Your companions.”