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Terror

תִּפְלֶ֫צֶתStrong’s H8606

tiphletset (tiph-le-tset)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tiphletset is the Hebrew word usually translated “horror your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 49:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Shuddering, horror
How it's translated
  • horror your 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    תִּפְלֶ֫צֶת tiphletset · terror

    shuddering, horror

    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.]

    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors. Psalms 73:19
    4. The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14
    All definitions
    1. Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11
    2. 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.