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# שַׁעֲרוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8186

**horror** — 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

horror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8186/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁעֲרוּרָה: n.f. horror horrible thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8186/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. horror = horrible thing;—שַׁמָּה וְשׁ׳ Je 5:30 an astounding and horrible thing has occurred; בִּנְבִיאֵי ירושׁ׳ רָאִיתִי שׁ׳ 23:14.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a horrible \[thing\] (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.30/#tree)

שַׁמָּה֙ וְשַׁ֣עֲרוּרָ֔ה נִהְיְתָ֖ה בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* an.atrocious.event and a.horrible.\[thing\] it.has.occurred in the land

*JPS 1917:* An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

[Jeremiah 23:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.14/#tree)

וּבִנְבִאֵ֨י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם רָאִ֣יתִי שַׁעֲרוּרָ֗ה נָא֞וֹף וְהָלֹ֤ךְ בַּשֶּׁ֙קֶר֙ וְחִזְּקוּ֙ יְדֵ֣י מְרֵעִ֔ים לְבִ֨לְתִּי־שָׁ֔בוּ אִ֖ישׁ מֵרָֽעָת֑וֹ הָֽיוּ־לִ֤י כֻלָּם֙ כִּסְדֹ֔ם וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּעֲמֹרָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and among the.prophets of.Jerusalem I.have.seen a.horrible.\[thing\] they.have.committed.adultery and they.have.walked in (the) falsehood and they.have.strengthened the.hands of.evil-doers to not they.have.turned.away anyone from evil his they.have.become to me of.them all like Sodom and inhabitants its like Gomorrah

*JPS 1917:* But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies, and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them become unto Me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8186.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8186/): 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).