The corpus record

ἔχθρ-α

echthra · ἡ

hatred, enmity

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Where it lives

Ephesians 2 · 8.31/10k
James 1 · 5.85/10k
Euthyphro 3 · 5.8/10k
Galatians 1 · 4.58/10k
Proverbia 5 · 4.5/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Phaedrus 5 · 3.01/10k
Statesman 5 · 2.95/10k
Lysis 2 · 2.88/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Machabaeorum I 4 · 2.3/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

hatred, enmity, hatred for, enmity to, at feud, personal enmity, hostility, hatred

hatred, enmity, Hdt. 5.81, Pi. P. 4.145, etc.: in philos. sense, = νεῖκος I.5, Plot. 3.2.2; ἔ. τινός hatred for, enmity to one, Antipho 2.4.1, Th. 3.10; κατʼ ἔχθραν τινός Ar. Pax 133; ἔ. ἔς τινα Hdt. 1.5, Th. 2.68; εἰς θεόν Ep.Rom. 8.7; πρός τινα A. Pr. 491 (pl.), Th. 2.68; διʼ ἔχθρας μολεῖν, ἀφῖχθαί τινι, to be at feud with one, E. Ph. 479, Hipp. 1164; διʼ ἔχθρας οὐδετέρῳ γενήσομαι Ar. Ra. 1412; εἰς ἔ. βάλλειν τινά A. Pr. 390; εἰς ἔ. ἐλθεῖν D. 21.62; καταστῆσαί τινας εἰς ἔχθραν τῷ δήμῳ X. HG 3.

In the wild

ʼχθρῶν · ʼchthrōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 789–793
ἔχθραν · echthran Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 390
ἔχθραι · echthrai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 488–492
ἔχθραν · echthran Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 336
ἔχθραν · echthran Aristotle, Ars Poetica 11
ἔχθρας · echthras Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..5 (DIORISIS sentence 75)

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Where it came from

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