Terror
בַּלָּהָהStrong’s H1091ballahah (bal-la-hah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ballahah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sudden terror”, “terrors” and “terrors of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.”
Meaning
- Terror, destruction, calamity, dreadful event
How it's translated
- sudden terror 6
- terrors 3
- terrors of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Ezekiel 3
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 18:14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
- Job 24:17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
- Job 27:20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- Job 30:15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Psalms 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Isaiah 17:14And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּלָּהָה ballahah · terror
terror, destruction, calamity, dreadful event
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.