Terror
מְחִתָּהStrong’s H4288mechittah (me-chit-tah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mechittah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruin of”, “ruin” and “destruction”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.”
Meaning
- Destruction, ruin, terror, a breakingterror, dismay, object of terror · ruin
How it's translated
- ruin of 2
- ruin 2
- a ruin 1
- destruction 1
- and destruction 1
- and terror 1
- and from terror 1
- an object of terror 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 7
- Jeremiah 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
- Proverbs 10:15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- Proverbs 10:29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 13:3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
- Proverbs 14:28In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
- Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Hebrew dictionary
מְחִתָּה mechittah · terror
1) destruction, ruin, terror, a breaking 1a) terror, dismay, object of terror 1b) ruin
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.