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`Terror on Every Side`

מָגוֹר מִסָּבִיבStrong’s H4036

magor missaviv (ma-gor mis-sa-viv)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Magor missaviv is the Hebrew word usually translated “terror” and “from around”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.”
Jeremiah 20:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.20.1; also translated "Terror on Every Side" at Jer.20.3
How it's translated
  • terror 1
  • from around 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    מָגוֹר מִסָּבִיב magor missaviv · `Terror on Every Side`

    A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.20.1; also translated "Terror on Every Side" at Jer.20.3; Another name of pash.chur (פַּשְׁחוּר "Pashhur" H6583I) § Magor-missabib = "terror on every side" the name given Pashur the priest by Jeremiah when Pashur smote him and put him in the stocks for prophesying against the idolatry of Jerusalem

    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.]

    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors. Psalms 73:19
    4. The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14
    All definitions
    1. Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11
    2. 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.