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# אָיֹם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H366

**terrible** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

terrible [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/366/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָיֹם: adj. terrible, dreadful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/366/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. terrible, dreadful—terrible, of Chaldeans אָיֹם וְנוֹרָא הוּא Hb 1:7; of dignified woman, awe-inspiring אֲיֻמָּה כַּנִּדְגָלוֹת Ct 6:4, 10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: majestic (2); \[is\] terrifying (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.7/#tree)

אָיֹ֥ם וְנוֹרָ֖א ה֑וּא מִמֶּ֕נּוּ מִשְׁפָּט֥וֹ וּשְׂאֵת֖וֹ יֵצֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].terrifying and awesome it from itself justice its and dignity its it.comes.forth

*JPS 1917:* They are terrible and dreadful; their law and their majesty proceed from themselves.

[Song of Songs 6:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.4/#tree)

יָפָ֨ה אַ֤תְּ רַעְיָתִי֙ כְּתִרְצָ֔ה נָאוָ֖ה כִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם אֲיֻמָּ֖ה כַּנִּדְגָּלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].beautiful you my.friend my like Tirzah lovely like Jerusalem majestic like.(the).\[hosts\] with banners

*JPS 1917:* Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/366.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/366/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).