Words the Bible translates as terror
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 20 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- phobosφόβοςa cause of fear: a person or thing that makes others afraid, a threat or terror
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- fear: the alarm or dread that grips a person in the face of danger, the supernatural, or overwhelming power
- reverence: the respect and submission owed to God, and the deference owed to people in authority
- paḥadפַּחַדdread: overwhelming fear that grips a person or sweeps over a people, and by extension the dreadful thing that causes it
- emahאֵימָהoverwhelming, paralyzing dread: a terror so heavy it can seem less like a feeling and more like a physical force that falls on a person or is sent against them.
- moraמוֹרָאthe fear a mighty figure inspires in others, and so also the one who is feared or the deed that produces the fear
- meḥittahמְחִתָּהruin: the shattering collapse that overtakes a person, a people, or a place, or the dread of one
- ballahahבַּלָּהָהterror: overwhelming horror that closes in on a doomed person or city and leaves nothing of them behind
- ḥaradahחֲרָדָהtrembling brought on by fear: the shudder of terror that grips a body, a crowd, or the heart, and by extension the anxious trouble taken on another's behalf
- ḥittitחִתִּיתterror as a great power projects it: the dread a conquering nation lays on everyone within reach
- magorמָגוֹרterror: fear that has closed in from every direction, leaving nowhere to run
- za'avahזַעֲוָהshuddering horror: the sickened jolt that runs through anyone who looks, and the wrecked people who set it off
- ḥatחַתdread: fear laid on a creature that drains its will to stand and fight
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- shattered: broken, whether a weapon that snaps or a fighter whose nerve gives way
- metsarמֵצַרterrornot studied yet
- bi'utimבִּעוּתִיםterrornot studied yet
- be'atahבְּעָתָהterrornot studied yet
- ḥagaחָגָּאterrornot studied yet
- ḥittahחִתָּהterrornot studied yet
- ḥatḥatחַתְחַתterrornot studied yet
- ḥatatחֲתַתterrornot studied yet
- ma'aratsahמַעֲרָצָהterrornot studied yet
- tiphletsetתִּפְלֶצֶתterrornot studied yet
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