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# חַתְחַתִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2849

**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/1495/2849/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַתְחַת: terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2849/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] terror, only pl. חַתְחַתִּים בַּדֶּרֶךְ Ec 12:5 terrors are in the way (‖ ירא).

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

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 12:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/#tree)

גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* also from a.high.\[place\] people.will.be.afraid and terrors \[are\].in the way and it.will.bloom the.almond tree and it.will.drag.itself.along the grasshopper and it.will.fail the caper-berry (dm) \[is\].going (the) humankind to the.house its.perpetuity his and they.will.go.about in the street the mourners

*JPS 1917:* Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2849/): 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).