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# בְּעָתָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1205

**terror** — used 2 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/1489/1205/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּעָתָה: n.f. terror, dismay [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1205/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. terror, dismay Je 8:15 = 14:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 8:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.15/#tree)

קַוֵּ֥ה לְשָׁל֖וֹם וְאֵ֣ין ט֑וֹב לְעֵ֥ת מַרְפֵּ֖ה וְהִנֵּ֥ה בְעָתָֽה׃

*Word for word:* we.waited.eagerly for peace and there.\[was\].not good for a.time of.healing and there! terror

*JPS 1917:* We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold terror!'

[Jeremiah 14:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.19/#tree)

הֲמָאֹ֨ס מָאַ֜סְתָּ אֶת־יְהוּדָ֗ה אִם־בְּצִיּוֹן֙ גָּעֲלָ֣ה נַפְשֶׁ֔ךָ מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ הִכִּיתָ֔נוּ וְאֵ֥ין לָ֖נוּ מַרְפֵּ֑א קַוֵּ֤ה לְשָׁלוֹם֙ וְאֵ֣ין ט֔וֹב וּלְעֵ֥ת מַרְפֵּ֖א וְהִנֵּ֥ה בְעָתָֽה׃

*Word for word:* utterly (reject)? have.you.rejected (et) Judah or? (in) Zion does.it.abhor self your why? have you.struck.us and there.\[is\].not for us healing we.waited.eagerly for peace and there.\[was\].not good and for a.time of.healing and there! terror

*JPS 1917:* Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath Thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast Thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold terror!

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1205/): 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).