בַּלָּהָה
ballâhâh · H1091 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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terror, horror
Something that instills an intense and overpowering fear in someone else; often associated with death and darkness
ExamplesJob 18:11 “All around sudden terrors frighten him, And harass him at every step.
Job 18:14 “He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors.
Job 24:17 “For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness, For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צַלְמָוֶתdeep darkness 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּעַתto torment 1
- הָפַךְto turn, to change, to overturn 1
- נָשַׂגto overtake, to catch up with, to afford 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 2
- נָכַרto recognize 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֶלֶךְking 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀπώλεια apṓleia · G684 · destruction, waste, ruin
- בַּלָּהָה (ballâhâh, H1091) denotes the emotional or circumstantial state of terror/trouble, while ἀπώλεια (apṓleia, G684) denotes the resulting destruction or ruin; LXX translators mapped the Hebrew term for dire distress to the Greek term for its catastrophic outcome.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1091. ballahah בַּלָּהָה noun feminine terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction —…
בַּלָּהָה noun feminine terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction — בַּלָּהָה Isa 17:14; plural בַּלָּהוֺת Job 18:11 Job 18:7t.; construct בַּלְהוֺת Job 24:17; —
1 only plural terrors Job 18:11; Job 27:20; Job 30:15; בּ ׳מֶלֶךְ Job 18:14 +?׳בּ צַלְמָוֶת Job 24:17.
2 calamity Isa 17:14, plural Psa 73:19; calamity, destruction Eze 26:21; Eze 27:36; Eze 28:19.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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