Horror
מִפְלֶ֫צֶתStrong’s H4656miphletset (miph-le-tset)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Miphletset is the Hebrew word usually translated “abominable image” and “abominable image her”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.”
Meaning
- Horrid thing, horrible thing
How it's translated
- an abominable image 2
- abominable image her 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מִפְלֶ֫צֶת miphletset · horror
horrid thing, horrible thing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “horror” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOR'ROR, noun
[Latin from horreo, to shake or shiver, or to set up the bristles, to be rough.]
- A shaking, shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever.
- An excessive degree of fear, or a painful emotion which makes a person tremble; terror; a shuddering with fear; but appropriately, terror or a sensation approaching it, accompanied with hatred or detestation. horror is often a passion compounded of fear and hatred or disgust.“A horror of great darkness fell on Abram” Genesis 15:12“Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law” Psalms 119:53
- That which may excite horror or dread; gloom; dreariness.
- Dreadful thoughts.
All definitions
- Distressing scenes; as the horrors of war or famine.
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.