בִּעוּתִים
biʻûwthîym · H1161 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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terror
State in which someone experiences an overwhelming fear
ExamplesJob 6:4 “For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks their poison; The terrors of God line up against me.
Psalm 88:16 Your burning anger has passed over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֱלוֹהַּGod, god 1
- ךָyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָרַךְto set in order, to arrange, to draw up 1
- צָמַתto destroy, to cut off 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- אֵימָה ʼêymâh · H367 · terror, dread, fierce anger
- Standard Hebrew noun for terror or dread, used in similar contexts to describe frightening or terrible things without sharing the root בעת.
- פַּחַד pachad · H6343 · trembling, terror, awe
- Common Hebrew noun for dread and terror, frequently used in contexts of frightening experiences or objects, semantically overlapping with בִּעוּתִים.
- בַּלָּהָה ballâhâh · H1091 · terror, horror
- Hebrew noun denoting terror or calamitous things that cause dread, used in parallel contexts to describe frightening events.
Contrasting words 2 words
- בֶּטַח beṭach · H983 · confident, unsuspecting, securely
- Hebrew noun denoting security and safety, the lexical opposite of terrors in that it represents the state of being free from fear or threat.
- שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm · H7965 · completely, wholly, peace
- Hebrew noun for peace and well-being, representing the opposite emotional and situational state from terrors.
In the other Testament 2 words
- φόβος phóbos · G5401 · fear, something to be feared
- Standard Greek noun for fear/terror, the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew בִּעוּתִים in contexts where terror or frightening things are described.
- φόβητρον phóbētron · G5400 · dreadful sight, terrifying happening, fearful thing
- Greek noun specifically denoting terrifying things or fearful sights, closely parallel to the Hebrew plural noun for terrors.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- בִּעוּתִים denotes terrors or dreadful assaults of fear, as in Job 6:4's lament "the terrors of God line up against me" (בִּעוּתֵי אֱלוֹהַּ יַעַרְכוּנִי), naming the emotional experience of overwhelming dread.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1161. biuthim [בִּעוּתִים] noun masculine plural terrors, alarms, occasioned by God…
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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