Terror
חַתStrong’s H2844chat
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chat is the Hebrew word usually translated “dread your”, “shattered” and “fear”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.”
Meaning
- Fear, terror
- Shattered, dismayedshattered · dismayed
How it's translated
- and dread your 1
- shattered 1
- fear 1
- terrified 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 2:4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
- Job 41:33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
- Jeremiah 46:5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
חַת chat · terror
fear, terror
חַת chat · shattered
1) shattered, dismayed 1a) shattered 1b) dismayed
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.