Word

אָיֹם

ʼâyôm · H366 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. awesome, terrible

    State of inspiring a mixture of both wonder and fear, because of a combination of fearsomeness and beauty

    Examples

    Song of Solomon 6:4 “You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, As lovely as Jerusalem, As awesome as an army with banners.

    Song of Solomon 6:10 ‘Who is this who looks down like the dawn, As beautiful as the full moon, As pure as the sun, As awesome as an army with banners?’

    Habakkuk 1:7 “They are terrifying and feared; Their justice and authority originate with themselves.

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 said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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אָיֹם describes something awe-inspiring or terrifying, as an army with banners or the terrifying Chaldean forces in Habakkuk.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H366. ayom אָיֹם adjective terrible, dreadful — terrible, of Chaldeans הוּא וְנוֺרָא…
H366. ayom
אָיֹם adjective terrible, dreadful — terrible, of Chaldeans הוּא וְנוֺרָא אָיֹם Hab 1:7; of dignified woman, awe-inspiring כַּנִּדְגָלוֺת אֲיֻמָּה Son 6:4, Son 6:10.

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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