Terror
בִּעוּתִיםStrong’s H1161biutim (bi-u-tim)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Biutim is the Hebrew word usually translated “terrors of” and “terrors your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.”
Meaning
- Terrors, alarms (occasioned by God)
How it's translated
- terrors of 1
- terrors your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בִּעוּתִים biutim · terror
terrors, alarms (occasioned by God)
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.