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# בֶּהָלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H928

**dismay** — used 4 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

dismay [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/928/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּֽהָלָה: n.f. dismay, sudden terror ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/928/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dismay, sudden terror or ruin (cf. Assyrian bêltu, terror, DlPr 32)—בּ׳ abs. Lv 26:16 + 2 times; pl. וּכֶֽהָלוֹת Je 15:8;—sudden terror Lv 26:16 וְהִפְקַדְתִּ֫י עֲלֵיכֶם בּ׳ (appositives follow); cf. Je 15:8; Is 65:23 לֹא יֵֽלְדוּ לַבֶּהָלָה, ψ 78:33 וַיְכַל־בַּהֶבֶל יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּשְׁנוֹתָם בַּבֶּהָלֶה and he ended their days in a breath, and their years in sudden terror.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sudden terror (2); terror (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.33/#tree)

וַיְכַל־בַּהֶ֥בֶל יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝שְׁנוֹתָ֗ם בַּבֶּהָלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.to.an.end in (the) futility days their and years their in.(the) sudden terror

*JPS 1917:* Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.

[Isaiah 65:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.23/#tree)

לֹ֤א יִֽיגְעוּ֙ לָרִ֔יק וְלֹ֥א יֵלְד֖וּ לַבֶּהָלָ֑ה כִּ֣י זֶ֜רַע בְּרוּכֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ הֵ֔מָּה וְצֶאֱצָאֵיהֶ֖ם אִתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* not they.will.labor to (the) emptiness and not they.will.father.children for.(the) sudden terror (dm) \[will.be\].the.offspring of.\[those\].blessed of.Yahweh they and descendants their \[will be\].with.them

*JPS 1917:* They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/928.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/928/): 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).