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Disaster

פִּידStrong’s H6365

pid

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Pid is the Hebrew word usually translated “disaster”, “disaster his” and “disaster of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.”
Job 12:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ruin, disaster, destruction
How it's translated
  • to disaster 1
  • in disaster his 1
  • in disaster of 1
  • and disaster of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Job 3
  • Proverbs 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

פִּיד pid · disaster

ruin, disaster, destruction

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “disaster” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DISASTER, noun

Dizaster. [Gr., a star; a word of astrological origin.]

  1. A blast or stroke of an unfavorable planet.
  2. Misfortune; mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met with many disasters on the road.
All definitions and other forms of “disaster”

    DISASTER, verb transitive

    To blast by the stroke of an unlucky planet; also, to injure; to afflict.

      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.