חַתְחַת
chathchath · H2849 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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danger
Event that causes people to lose their inner strength and courage
ExamplesEcclesiastes 12:5 Furthermore, people are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while the mourners move around in the street.
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 it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דֶּרֶךְway, road 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
- פַּחַד pachad · H6343 · trembling, terror, awe
- Common Hebrew noun for fear or dread, semantically overlapping with חַתְחַת but from a distinct root (פחד vs. חתת).
- יִרְאָה yirʼâh · H3374 · fear
- Hebrew noun for fear from the root ירא, can denote both reverential fear and terror, semantically close to חַתְחַת in contexts of dread.
- אֵימָה ʼêymâh · H367 · terror, dread, fierce anger
- Hebrew noun expressing terror or dread, from a distinct root (אים), semantically parallel to חַתְחַת.
Contrasting words 1 word
- בֶּטַח beṭach · H983 · confident, unsuspecting, securely
- The second word is a Hebrew noun expressing security or assurance, the direct lexical opposite of fear (חַתְחַת).
In the other Testament 2 words
- φόβος phóbos · G5401 · fear, something to be feared
- The standard Greek noun for fear, equivalent to Hebrew חַתְחַת in expressing the emotion of fear or dread.
- δειλία deilía · G1167 · cowardice, timidity
- Greek noun denoting fearfulness or timidity, closely parallel to the sense of dread expressed by חַתְחַת.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- חַתְחַת denotes fear or terror, an intensified form built on the same root as related words for dread.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2849. chathchath [חַתְחַת] noun [masculine] terror, only plural בַּדֶּרֶךְ חַתְחַתִּים…
[חַתְחַת] noun [masculine] terror, only plural בַּדֶּרֶךְ חַתְחַתִּים Ecc 12:5 terrors are in the way (|| ירא).
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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