Terror
אֵימָהStrong’s H0367emah (e-mah)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Emah is the Hebrew word usually translated “terror”, “dread” and “terror my”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”
Meaning
- Terror, dread
How it's translated
- terror 6
- dread 1
- terror my 1
- dread your 1
- and dread his 1
- and dread your 1
- terrors 1
- dread of me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 6
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Joshua 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 15:16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
- Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- Joshua 2:9And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
- Ezra 3:3And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
- Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Hebrew dictionary
אֵימָה emah · terror
terror, dread
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “terror” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TER'ROR, noun
[Latin terror from terreo, to frighten.]
- Extreme fear; violent dread; fright; fear that agitates the body and mind.“The sword without, and terror within” Deuteronomy 32:25“The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me” Job 6:4
- That which may excite dread; the cause of extreme fear.“Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil” Romans 13:3
- In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors. Psalms 73:19
- The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14
All definitions
- Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11
- Death is emphatically styled the king of terrors.
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.