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# חִתִּית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2851

**terror** — used 8 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/1495/2851/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִתִּית: n.f. terror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2851/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. terror, only Ezek.; abs. ח׳ Ez 32:23, but Co reads חִתִּיתָם (with 𝔊 and v 24, 26); cstr. id. 32:27; sf. חתיתו 32:32 Kt (\> חִתִּיתִי Qr); חִתִּיתָם 32:24 + 2 times + 26:17 (read חִתִּיתָהּ, with 𝔊 Ew Co, see VB, 32:30 (read חַתִּים, v. ii. חת);—terror, caused by powerful cities, nations, kings, etc.: usually c. sf. as obj. genit. Ez 26:17 (of Tyre); elsewhere only Ez 32: v 27 (ח׳ גִּבּוֹרִים, 𝔖 Co ח׳ גבור תם), v 30 (חִתִּיתָם, but read חַתִּים, v. supr.); especially in phr. נָתַן ח׳ בארץ חַיִּים cause one’s terror (terror of oneself) in the land of the living v 23, 24, 25 (del. 𝔊 Co), v 26, 32.—חִתִּית Ez 16:3, 45 v. חִתִּי sub חֵת supr. p. 366.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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 (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: terror (8).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 32:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.26/#tree)

שָׁ֣ם מֶ֤שֶׁךְ תֻּבַל֙ וְכָל־הֲמוֹנָ֔הּ סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖יו קִבְרוֹתֶ֑יהָ כֻּלָּ֤ם עֲרֵלִים֙ מְחֻ֣לְלֵי חֶ֔רֶב כִּֽי־נָתְנ֥וּ חִתִּיתָ֖ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ חַיִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].there Meshech Tubal and all multitude its \[are\].around it graves its of.them all \[are\].uncircumcised pierced of.a.sword (dm) they.had.put terror their in.\[the\] land of.\[the\].living

*JPS 1917:* There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; her graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because they caused their terror in the land of the living.

[Ezekiel 32:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.32/#tree)

כִּֽי־נָתַ֥תִּי אֶת־חִתִּיתִ֖י בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חַיִּ֑ים וְהֻשְׁכַּב֩ בְּת֨וֹךְ עֲרֵלִ֜ים אֶת־חַלְלֵי־חֶ֗רֶב פַּרְעֹה֙ וְכָל־הֲמוֹנֹ֔הנְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* (dm) I.had.put (et) terror my in.\[the\] land of.\[the\].living and he.will.be.laid among uncircumcised.\[men\] with \[those\].slain of.a.sword Pharaoh and all multitude his the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* For I have put My terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2851.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2851/): 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).