זְוָעָה
zᵉvâʻâh · H2113 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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horror
Causative process by which an event causes people to shake with fear
ExamplesIsaiah 28:19 “As often as it passes through, it will seize you; For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 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 2 words
- חֲרָדָה chărâdâh · H2731 · trembling, shock, terror
- Both words denote states of emotional and physical disturbance, trembling, or fearful agitation.
- רַעַשׁ raʻash · H7494 · earthquake, trembling, quaking
- Both denote physical instability, shaking, or disturbance, overlapping in describing trembling or upheaval, though the evidence for זְוָעָה (zᵉvâʻâh, H2113) is thin given its rarity.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unsteady002001001067
- זְוָעָה denotes trembling terror, the shaking dread that seizes those who encounter the passing judgment Isaiah describes.
- Afraid002001002001
- The word carries the accompanying fear that such terror provokes, sheer dread at understanding the message.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2113. zevaah זְוָעָה and, by transposition, זַעֲוָה (Di Deu 28:25 compare Sta§ 192 a)…
זְוָעָה and, by transposition, זַעֲוָה (Di Deu 28:25 compare Sta§ 192 a)
noun feminine a trembling, i.e. object of trembling, terror: זְוָעָה Isa 28:19, also Kt Jer 15:4 Jer 15:4t.; זַעֲוָה Deu 28:25; Eze 23:46 (also Qr Jer 15:4 Jer 15:4t.); — object of trembling, terror, fright; לְזַעֲוָה זְהָיִיתָ Deu 28:25 and thou shalt become a terror to all (לְכֹל) the kingdoms of the earth; לְז ׳וּנְתַתִּים ׳וגו) Jer 15:4; Jer 29:18; Jer 34:17 (|| וּלְשַׁמָּה לְאָלָה וּלְחֶרְמָּה וְלִשְׁרֵקָה) also לְז ׳וּנְתַתִּים ׳וגו Jer 24:9 (|| לְחֶרְמָּה וְלִקְלָלָה לִשְׁנִינָה וּלְמָשָׁל), Eze 23:46; 2Ch 29:8 .
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
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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