English Bible words starting with H
620 meanings beginning with H, in alphabetical order. This is page 2 of 7. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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hangings1 word
- qelaקֶלַעthe hangings: lengths of woven linen hung between posts to fence in the tabernacle courtyard.
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- a sling: the leather-strap weapon that whirls a stone and hurls it at a target.
- qelaקֶלַעthe hangings: lengths of woven linen hung between posts to fence in the tabernacle courtyard.
Hannah1 word
Hannathon1 word
Hanniel1 word
hanoch1 word
Hanun1 word
Hapharaim1 word
happen4 words
- hayahהָיָהto be: to exist, be present, become, or come to pass
- sumbainōσυμβαίνωto happen: for an event to come about, usually one that lands on a particular person
- tugchanōτυγχάνωto happen, turn out: for something to fall out a certain way, apart from anyone's design
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- to obtain: to come to have something one has sought or been granted
- qarahקָרָהto meet or befall: for a person or an event to come to someone, whether by design or by chance
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- to lay beams; to roof a building by setting its wooden beams in place
happened1 word
Happizzez1 word
happy4 words
- makariosμακάριοςenviably well off: an outside observer's exclamation that someone's whole situation is genuinely to be envied, usually because of where they stand with God
- esherאֶשֶׁרhow fortunate!: a teacher's or poet's glad exclamation that a certain kind of person has a life worth envying
- asharאָשַׁרto call someone happy, to publicly declare a person fortunate or blessed
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- to go straight ahead on a path, or to lead and direct others along one
- osherאֹשֶׁרhappynot studied yet
har-magedon1 word
Hara1 word
Haradah1 word
haran3 words
- CharranΧαρράνHarannot studied yet
- ḥaranחָרָןHaran: the caravan city of upper Mesopotamia where Abraham's family settled and where Jacob later took refuge.
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- Haran: a son of Caleb by Ephah, listed among the families of Judah.
- haranהָרָןHaran: a man's name in the Old Testament, borne chiefly by Abram's brother, the father of Lot, and once by a Levite of David's day.
harashim1 word
Harbona1 word
hard4 words
- sklērosσκληρόςhardnot studied yet
- ḥazaqחָזָקstrong: possessing force that does not give way, whether power that overwhelms or hardness that will not bend
- qashehקָשֶׁהhard in the sense of unyielding: a burden that will not let up, a manner that gives no ground, or a person who will not bend
- etanאֵיתָןunfailing: something that keeps going or holds steady without giving out, the way a stream that runs all year does
hard pressed1 word
- thlibōθλίβωto press physically: to squeeze or crowd something so that it is pinched tight
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- to afflict: to bear down on someone with hardship, trouble, or persecution, like a weight pressing from outside
- thlibōθλίβωto press physically: to squeeze or crowd something so that it is pinched tight
hard question1 word
hard to explain1 word
hard to interpret1 word
hard to understand2 words
harden9 words
- ḥazaqחָזַקto be firm or strong, and so to make firm: to grow strong, prevail, take courage, strengthen, repair, grip, hold fast, or harden
- kavadכָּבֵדto be heavy: to weigh much, whether a literal load, a crushing trouble, or a body part that has grown too heavy to work
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- to be honored: to carry weight in others' eyes, to be held in high regard or shown to be glorious
- to honor: to treat someone as weighty, giving them the regard, deference, or worship their standing deserves
- sklērunōσκληρύνωto harden: to make or become stubbornly unresponsive, so that an appeal no longer gets through
- amatsאָמֵץto be firm and strong, or to make someone firm: physical might, inner resolve, and the courage to hold steady
- qashahקָשָׁהto be or become hard: too difficult to manage, harsh or heavy in force, or (of the heart and neck) stubbornly unwilling to yield
hardening1 word
hardly2 words
hardly talking1 word
hardness1 word
hardness of heart1 word
hardship3 words
- anagkēἀνάγκηnecessity: something that must be so or must be done, whether it follows by reason, is owed as a duty, or presses on a person as a compulsion
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- distress: the pressure of hard and painful circumstances; a tight, threatening situation that hems a person in
- stenochōriaστενοχωρίαdistress that feels like being hemmed in with no way out
- tela'ahתְּלָאָהhardshipnot studied yet
- anagkēἀνάγκηnecessity: something that must be so or must be done, whether it follows by reason, is owed as a duty, or presses on a person as a compulsion
hare1 word
Hareph1 word
Harhaiah1 word
Harhas1 word
Harhur1 word
Harim1 word
Hariph1 word
harlot3 words
- zanahזָנָהto be sexually unfaithful: to have sex outside marriage or to be a prostitute, and by extension to betray God the way an unfaithful wife betrays her husband
- pornēπόρνηa prostitute: a woman who is paid for sex, treated in the New Testament as a specific, recognizable figure rather than a loose label for any immoral woman.
- qedeshahקְדֵשָׁהa consecrated woman: a woman set apart for the service of a god at a shrine, a title the Bible also uses of a woman taken for a prostitute
harlotry3 words
- taznutתַּזְנוּתharlotry: repeated, brazen acts of promiscuous unfaithfulness, pictured as a wife who sells herself to anyone
- zanunזְנוּנִיםfaithless sexual conduct treated as a settled condition: harlotry used literally once, and far more often as a picture of breaking faith with God
- zenutזְנוּתpromiscuous sexual immorality, used above all as a picture of unfaithfulness to God
harm8 words
- raרַעbad: failing the standard of what it should be, whether defective, harmful, or unpleasant, with no question of sin
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- calamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
- morally evil: conduct, intent, or persons that are wrong in the sight of God, the opposite of what is good
- kakosκακόςbad: the ordinary, all-purpose opposite of good, covering a corrupt character, a wrongful act, and plain harm alike
- ra'aרָעַעto be bad, go wrong, or be displeasing; to do evil or bring harm on someone
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- to break, shatter, or smash to pieces
- adikeōἀδικέωto do wrong: to violate what is just by treating a person unfairly or by inflicting injury on someone or something.
- kakoōκακόωto harmnot studied yet
- raרַעbad: failing the standard of what it should be, whether defective, harmful, or unpleasant, with no question of sin
harmful2 words
- ponērosπονηρόςevil, wicked: bad in a way that actively works harm
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- the evil one: a title for Satan, the personal source of evil
- blaberosβλαβερόςharmfulnot studied yet
- ponērosπονηρόςevil, wicked: bad in a way that actively works harm
Harmon1 word
harmonious1 word
harmony1 word
Harnepher1 word
harness1 word
Harod1 word
Haroeh1 word
Harosheth1 word
harp3 words
- kinnorכִּנּוֹרa lyre: a small handheld stringed instrument, plucked to accompany singing, celebration, and worship
- nevelנֵבֶלa stringed instrument of the harp or lyre family, used in worship and celebration
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- a large jar or skin for storing liquids, especially a wine container
- kitharaκιθάραharpnot studied yet
harpist1 word
harpoon1 word
- tseltselimצֶלְצְלִיםa barbed spear for taking fish: a harpoon
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- cymbals: the clashing metal plates sounded in worship, named after the ringing noise they make
- whirring, buzzing: the sound of beating wings, or the winged pest known by that sound
- tseltselimצֶלְצְלִיםa barbed spear for taking fish: a harpoon
harrow1 word
harrows1 word
harsh4 words
- qashehקָשֶׁהhard in the sense of unyielding: a burden that will not let up, a manner that gives no ground, or a person who will not bend
- qashahקָשָׁהto be or become hard: too difficult to manage, harsh or heavy in force, or (of the heart and neck) stubbornly unwilling to yield
- azעַזmarked by overpowering force: strong or mighty, and, turned against someone, fierce, harsh, or brazen.
- chaleposχαλεπόςharshnot studied yet
Harsha1 word
harshness1 word
- pikriaπικρίαbitterness of spirit: a settled, resentful temper that nurses a wrong and refuses to be reconciled, along with the cutting speech it produces.
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- a bitter poison: the corrupting, defiling influence of someone or something that turns away from God and threatens to poison the whole community.
- pikriaπικρίαbitterness of spirit: a settled, resentful temper that nurses a wrong and refuses to be reconciled, along with the cutting speech it produces.
hart1 word
Harum1 word
Harumaph1 word
Haruz1 word
harvest8 words
- karposκαρπόςfruit: what something yields, whether the produce of a plant or the result a life, action, or work brings forth.
- qatsirקָצִירharvest: the reaping of a ripened crop, the season when it happens, or the crop itself
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- a green shoot or branch: the new growth a plant or tree sends out
- qatsarקָצַרto reap, to harvest: to cut down standing grain at harvest time.
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- to be short, to be shortened: cut down in length, in time, or in patience and power.
- therizōθερίζωto reap: to cut and gather a ripe crop at harvest
- therismosθερισμόςharvest: the reaping and bringing in of a ripe crop, whether the crop itself, the act of cutting it, or the season it falls in.
has seizures1 word
Hasadiah1 word
Hashabiah1 word
Hashabnah1 word
Hashabneiah1 word
Hashbaddanah1 word
Hashem1 word
Hashmonah1 word
Hashubah1 word
Hashum1 word
Hasrah1 word
Hasshub1 word
haste4 words
- spoudēσπουδήhaste: quick movement that wastes no time getting where it is going
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- eager effort: energy poured promptly and wholeheartedly into something a person takes seriously
- meherahמְהֵרָהhaste: the shortness of the time a thing takes or the time before it comes; used as an adverb, quickly or soon
- behalבְּהַלto act in alarmed haste: to move hurriedly under the press of urgency or fright
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- to alarm: to strike someone with sudden dread that throws the mind into fearful confusion
- ḥippazonחִפָּזוֹןhastenot studied yet
- spoudēσπουδήhaste: quick movement that wastes no time getting where it is going
hastely1 word
hasten6 words
- speudōσπεύδωto hastennot studied yet
- maharמָהַרto hurry: to act quickly, without delay, or to be quick and rash by nature.
- ḥushחוּשׁto hurry: to move or act with urgent speed, or to make something happen quickly
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- to feel or enjoy: to take in pleasure with the senses
- utsאוּץto move or drive with pressing urgency: to hurry, or to press someone else to hurry
- prostrechōπροστρέχωto hastennot studied yet
hastened1 word
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
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- to hurry, act in haste, or do something rashly
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
hastily2 words
hasty2 words
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
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- to hurry, act in haste, or do something rashly
- utsאוּץto move or drive with pressing urgency: to hurry, or to press someone else to hurry
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
Hasupha1 word
hate5 words
- miseōμισέωto hate: to turn against someone or something with deep ill will, and (in a comparative turn of phrase) to set one thing far below another in love or loyalty
- saneשָׂנֵאto hate: to be set against a person in active hostility, so that the one hating becomes an enemy
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- to detest: to judge something wrong and refuse to have any part in it
- to love less: to leave a person unfavored, second to someone who is preferred
- to repudiate: to break off a bond formally, whether a marriage or a covenant
- sinahשִׂנְאָהhatred: active hostility and ill will toward another, the settled opposite of love
- satamשָׂטַםto hatenot studied yet
- seneשְׂנָאto hatenot studied yet
hated2 words
Hathach1 word
Hathath1 word
hating1 word
hating good1 word
Hatipha1 word
Hatita1 word
hatred4 words
- echthraἔχθραenmity: the settled state of being enemies, the hostile opposite of friendship
- sinahשִׂנְאָהhatred: active hostility and ill will toward another, the settled opposite of love
- evahאֵיבָהenmity: a settled, openly recognized state of being enemies, a lasting hostile relationship rather than a passing feeling
- mastemahמַשְׂטֵמָהhatrednot studied yet
Hattil1 word
Hattush1 word
haughtily1 word
haughtiness3 words
- ga'avahגַּאֲוָהa rising to a height: majestic grandeur when it belongs to God, but arrogant self-importance when a person or nation claims it
- govahגֹּבַהּheight: the vertical measure or lofty elevation of a structure, person, tree, or the sky
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- loftiness of spirit: a person or nation lifted high in bearing, whether in arrogant pride or in exalted dignity
- gavhutגַּבְהוּתhaughtinessnot studied yet
haughty4 words
- hupsēlosὑψηλόςhigh: standing up well above whatever surrounds it, as a mountain, a wall, or the height where God is enthroned
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- lofty in standing: set above other people, whether in what human beings admire or in a person's own estimate of himself
- huperēphanosὑπερήφανοςarrogant: the person who inwardly sets himself above other people, and above God, and so looks down on them
- gavahגָּבַהּto be high: to rise up or be lifted to a great height, whether in physical elevation, in honor, or (most often) in pride
- ge'ehגֵּאֶהproud, arrogant: a person or nation puffed up above its rightful place
- hupsēlosὑψηλόςhigh: standing up well above whatever surrounds it, as a mountain, a wall, or the height where God is enthroned
haul1 word
- helkuō, helkōἕλκωto pull something or someone along by force: a sword drawn out, a net hauled in, a person dragged off.
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- of God: to draw a person to Christ, the pull of God on someone who does not come on their own.
- helkuō, helkōἕλκωto pull something or someone along by force: a sword drawn out, a net hauled in, a person dragged off.
Hauran1 word
have5 words
- hayahהָיָהto be: to exist, be present, become, or come to pass
- echōἔχωto have: to hold something as one's own, on oneself, or within one's situation, whether a possession, a relationship, an inner reality, or a state one is in.
- yeshיֵשׁthere is, there are: the word that asserts something exists, is present, or is at hand
- itayאִיתַיthere is, there are: the plain statement that someone or something exists, is present, or is at hand.
- helkoōἑλκόωto have/cause soresnot studied yet
have a custom1 word
have a right to1 word