Dismay
בֶּֽהָלָהStrong’s H0928behalah (be-ha-lah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Behalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sudden terror”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.”
Meaning
- Dismay, sudden terror or ruin, alarm
How it's translated
- sudden terror 1
- in sudden terror 1
- for sudden terror 1
- and sudden terror 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 78:33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- Isaiah 65:23They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
- Jeremiah 15:8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּֽהָלָה behalah · dismay
dismay, sudden terror or ruin, alarm
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dismay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISMAY, verb transitive
To deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to sink or depress the spirits or resolution; hence, to affright or terrify.
- “Be strong, and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed” Joshua 1:9
All definitions and other forms of “dismay”
DISMAY, noun
Fall or loss of courage; a sinking of the spirits; depression; dejection; a yielding to fear; that loss of firmness which is effected by fear or terror; fear impressed; terror felt.
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.