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# חַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2844

**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/1495/2844/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַת²: n.m. terror, fear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2844/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 9:2 terror, fear—חָ֑ת Jb 41:25, חִתְּכֶם Gn 9:2;—c. sf. as obj. gen., Gn 9:2 terror of you (‖ מוֹרַאֲכֶם); in description of crocodile c. neg., הֶעָשׂוּ לִבְלִי־חָ֑ת Jb 41:25 one made for fearlessness.

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 41:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.25/#tree)

אֵֽין־עַל־עָפָ֥ר מָשְׁל֑וֹ הֶ֝עָשׂ֗וּ לִבְלִי־חָֽת׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\].not on \[the\].dust likeness its the.\[one\] made for not terror

*JPS 1917:* Upon earth there is not his like, who is made to be fearless.

[Genesis 9:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.2/#tree)

וּמוֹרַאֲכֶ֤ם וְחִתְּכֶם֙ יִֽהְיֶ֔ה עַ֚ל כָּל־חַיַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ וְעַ֖ל כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם בְּכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּרְמֹ֧שׂ הָֽאֲדָמָ֛ה וּֽבְכָל־דְּגֵ֥י הַיָּ֖ם בְּיֶדְכֶ֥ם נִתָּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and fear your and terror your it.will.be on every (the).animal of the.earth and on every (the).bird of the.heavens on all that it.creeps the ground and on all the.fish(es) of the.sea in hand your they.are.given

*JPS 1917:* And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2844.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2844/): 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).