בְּעָתָה
bᵉʻâthâh · H1205 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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terror
State in which someone experiences an overwhelming fear
ExamplesJeremiah 8:15 We waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror!
Jeremiah 14:19 Have You completely rejected Judah? Or have You loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 2 words
- צָרָה tsârâh · H6869 · trouble, distress, anguish
- Common Hebrew noun for trouble or distress; widely used for situations of affliction and adversity, semantically overlapping with the sense of trouble denoted by בְּעָתָה.
- עָמָל ʻâmâl · H5999 · labor, toil, hard-earned wealth
- Hebrew noun denoting trouble, toil, or misery; frequently used for troublesome or burdensome situations.
Contrasting words 1 word
- שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm · H7965 · completely, wholly, peace
- Standard Hebrew antonym for trouble; denotes peace, safety, and well-being as the lexical opposite of trouble and distress.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- בְּעָתָה denotes terror or dread, as in Jeremiah 8:15's lament "we waited for peace, but no good came... and behold, terror!" (וְהִנֵּה בְעָתָה), naming the emotional shock of sudden calamity.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1205. beathah בְּעָתָה noun feminine terror, dismay Jer 8:15 = Jer 14:19.
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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