Terrible
אֵימְתָןStrong’s H0574emetani (e-me-ta-ni)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Emetani is the Aramaic word usually translated “terrible”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.”
Meaning
- Terrible
How it's translated
- and terrible 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
אֵימְתָן emetani · terrible
terrible
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “terrible” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TER'RIBLE, adjective
[Latin terribilis, from terreo, to frighten.]
- Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.“The form of the image was terrible” Daniel 2:31
- Adapted to impress dread, terror or solemn awe and reverence.“The Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible” Deuteronomy 7:21“Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy” Psalms 99:3“He hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen” Deuteronomy 10:21
- adverb Severely; very; so as to give pain; as terrible cold; a colloquial phrase.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.