Calamity
אֵידStrong’s H0343ed
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ed is the Hebrew word usually translated “disaster their”, “disaster his” and “calamity my”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”
Meaning
- Distress, burden, calamityburden (of the righteous) · calamity (of nation) · disaster (of wicked) · day of calamity
How it's translated
- disaster their 7
- disaster his 3
- calamity my 2
- calamity their 2
- calamity 2
- disaster of 2
- and disaster 1
- calamity of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 6
- Proverbs 6
- Jeremiah 5
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:19They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
- Job 18:12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
- Job 21:17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
- Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- Job 30:12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Hebrew dictionary
אֵיד ed · calamity
1) distress, burden, calamity 1a) burden (of the righteous) 1b) calamity (of nation) 1c) disaster (of wicked) 1d) day of calamity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “calamity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CALAMITY, noun
Any great misfortune, or cause of misery; generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evils, as loss of crops, earthquakes, conflagrations, defeat of armies, and the like. But it is applied also to the misfortunes which bring great distress upon individuals.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.