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# בַּלָּהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1091

**terror** — used 10 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

terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1091/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּלָּהָה: n.f. terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1091/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction—בַּלָּהָה Is 17:14; pl. בַּלָּהוֹת Jb 18:11 + 7 times; cstr. בַּלְהוֹת Jb 24:17;— only pl. terrors Jb 18:11; 27:20; 30:15; מֶלֶךְ בּ׳ Jb 18:14 = death, cf. בּ׳ צַלְמָוֶת Jb 24:17. calamity Is 17:14, pl. ψ 73:19; calamity, destruction Ez 26:21; 27:36; 28:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sudden terror(s) (7); \[the\] sudden terror(s) (1); of sudden terror(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.11/#tree)

סָ֭בִיב בִּֽעֲתֻ֣הוּ בַלָּה֑וֹת וֶהֱפִיצֻ֥הוּ לְרַגְלָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* all.around they terrify.him sudden.terror(s) and they scatter.him to feet his

*JPS 1917:* Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.

[Job 24:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.17/#tree)

כִּ֤י יַחְדָּ֨ו ׀ בֹּ֣קֶר לָ֣מוֹ צַלְמָ֑וֶת כִּֽי־יַ֝כִּ֗יר בַּלְה֥וֹת צַלְמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* (dm) together \[is\].morning for them deep.darkness (dm) he.is.acquainted.with \[the\].sudden.terror(s) of.deep.darkness

*JPS 1917:* For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1091.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1091/): 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).