Horror
שַׁעֲרוּרָהStrong’s H8186shaarurah (sha-a-ru-rah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaarurah is the Hebrew word usually translated “horrible”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;”
Meaning
- Horrible thing
- Horrible thing
How it's translated
- a horrible 3
- and a horrible 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Hosea 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 18:13Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
- Jeremiah 23:14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
- Hosea 6:10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁעֲרוּרָה shaarurah · horror
horrible thing Also means: sha.a.ri.riy.yah (שַׁעֲרִירִיָּה "horror" H8186B)
שַׁעֲרִירִיָּה shaaririyyah · horror
horrible thing Another spelling of sha.a.ru.rah (שַׁעֲרוּרָה "horror" H8186A)
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.