Terror
מֵצַרStrong’s H4712metsar (me-tsar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metsar is the Hebrew word usually translated “distresses of”, “distress” and “narrow places”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”
Meaning
- Straits, distress
How it's translated
- and distresses of 1
- the distress 1
- the narrow places 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 118:5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
- Lamentations 1:3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Hebrew dictionary
מֵצַר metsar · terror
straits, distress
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.