Words the Bible translates as horror
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shammahשַׁמָּהa horrifying devastation: a place laid waste and abandoned, and the shudder of dread it provokes
- ballahahבַּלָּהָהterror: overwhelming horror that closes in on a doomed person or city and leaves nothing of them behind
- za'avahזַעֲוָהshuddering horror: the sickened jolt that runs through anyone who looks, and the wrecked people who set it off
- meshammahמְשַׁמָּהwasteland: ground wrecked and emptied until nothing lives on it, and the horror of the people who look at it
- miphletsetמִפְלֶצֶתhorrornot studied yet
- sha'arurahשַׁעֲרוּרָהhorrornot studied yet
- shimmamonשִׁמָּמוֹןhorrornot studied yet
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