אֵמְתָּנִי
ʼêmᵉtânîy · H574 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dreadful, terrible
State in which something inspires extreme strong fear and a sense of imminent danger, such as a dangerous animal
ExamplesDaniel 7:7 “After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
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
- חֵיוָאbeast 1
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Near synonyms 3 words
- אָיֹם ʼâyôm · H366 · awesome, terrible
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'terrible, dreadful, fearful'; a well-attested synonym for conveying terror and dread, used frequently in descriptions of God and enemies.
- יָרֵא yârêʼ · H3372 · to be afraid, to fear, to be in awe of
- Hebrew Niphal participle from יָרֵא functioning as an adjective meaning 'to be feared, awesome, terrible'; commonly used to describe that which inspires fear or terror.
- עָרִיץ ʻârîyts · H6184 · mighty, violent, ruthless
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'ruthless, terrible, violent, fierce'; used of terrifying or fierce persons and forces.
In the other Testament 1 word
- φοβερός phoberós · G5398 · fearful, causing fear
- Greek adjective meaning 'terrible, fearful, dreadful'; the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew words conveying terror or dreadfulness, making it the natural Greek equivalent for this rare Hebrew term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- Daniel 7:7 describes the fourth beast of Daniel's vision, “a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth.”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H574. emthan [אֵימְתָן D§ 35, 1 θ] adjective terrible (אֵימְתָן ᵑ7, from אֵימְתָא =…
[אֵימְתָן D§ 35, 1 θ]
adjective terrible (אֵימְתָן ᵑ7, from אֵימְתָא = Biblical Hebrew אֵימָה, q. v. v אים); — feminine singular absolute אֵימְתָנִי (K§ 61, 5)) Dan 7:7 (on form see PrätZMG lvi (1902), 156 NöBSSW 51, Anm. 3).
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
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