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# מְחִתָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4288

**terror** — used 11 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/1502/4288/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְחִתָּה: n.f. terror, destruction, ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4288/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. terror, destruction, ruin, poet. (especially Pr)—abs. מ׳ Pr 10:14 + 8 times; cstr. מְחִתַּת Pr 10:15; 14:28;— terror, Is 54:14 (‖ עֹשֶׁק), Je 17:17; = obj. of terror, 48:39 (‖ שְׂחֹק). dismay, Pr 21:15 (opp. שִׂמְחָה). ruin, of strongholds ψ 89:41; בְּאֶפֶם לְאֹם מ׳ רָזוֹן Pr 14:28 without people is ruin to a prince (opp. הַדְרַת־מֶלֶךְ); מ׳ דַּלִּים רֵישָׁם 10:15 the ruin of the poor (is) their poverty; as consequence of evil-doing מ׳ לְפֹעֲלֵי אָוֶן Pr 10:29 (opp. מָעוֹז); of fools פִּי כְסִיל מ׳־לוֹ 18:7, cf. 13:3 (opp. שֹׁמֵר נַפְשׁוֹ); פִּי אֱוִיל מ׳ קְרֹבָה 10:14 the mouth of a fool is imminent ruin.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: terror (4); \[is\] ruin (2); ruin (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.41/#tree)

פָּרַ֥צְתָּ כָל־גְּדֵרֹתָ֑יו שַׂ֖מְתָּ מִבְצָרָ֣יו מְחִתָּה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.broken.through all walls his you.have.made strongholds his a.ruin

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast broken down all his fences; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

[Proverbs 10:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.14/#tree)

חֲכָמִ֥ים יִצְפְּנוּ־דָ֑עַת וּפִֽי־אֱ֝וִיל מְחִתָּ֥ה קְרֹבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* wise.\[people\] they.store.up knowledge and.\[the\] mouth of.a.fool \[is\].ruin near

*JPS 1917:* Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is an imminent ruin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4288.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4288/): 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).