Panic
רֶ֫טֶטStrong’s H7374retet (re-tet)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Retet is the Hebrew word usually translated “panic”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.”
Meaning
- Trembling, panic
How it's translated
- and panic 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫טֶט retet · panic
trembling, panic
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “panic” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PAN'IC, noun
A sudden fright; particularly, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic
All definitions and other forms of “panic”
PAN'IC, adjective
Extreme or sudden; applied to fright; as panic fear.
PAN'IC, noun
[Latin panicum.]
A plant and its grain, of the genus Panicum. The grain or seed is like millet, and it is cultivated in some parts of Europe for bread.
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.