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# חִתָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2847

**terror** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2847/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִתָּה²: n.f. terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2847/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. terror—חִתַּת אלהים עַל־הֶעָרִים Gn 35:5 a terror of (= from) God was upon the cities.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the terror (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 35:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.5/#tree)

וַיִּסָּ֑עוּ וַיְהִ֣י ׀ חִתַּ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֗ים עַל־הֶֽעָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ סְבִיבֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם וְלֹ֣א רָֽדְפ֔וּ אַחֲרֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out and it.was the.terror of.God on the cities which \[were\].around them and not people.pursued after the.sons of.Jacob

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2847.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2847/): 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).