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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Read in context →And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Read in context →11 occurrences in 11 verses.
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yârêʼ · yaw-ray'
to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten
Strong's KJV usage: affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), × see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 1:19Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:11
Open full H3372 profile →ʻârîyts · aw-reets'
fearful, i.e. powerful or tyrannical
Strong's KJV usage: mighty, oppressor, in great power, strong, terrible, violent.
Strong's first: Isaiah 13:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 32:12
Open full H6184 profile →ʼâyôm · aw-yome'
frightful
Strong's KJV usage: terrible.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 6:4Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:7
Open full H366 profile →ʼêymâh · ay-maw'
fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
Strong's KJV usage: dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
Strong's first: Job 39:20Strong's last: Job 41:14
Open full H367 profile →phoberós · fob-er-os'
frightful, i.e. (objectively) formidable
Strong's KJV usage: :--fearful, terrible.
Strong's first: Hebrews 12:21Strong's last: Hebrews 12:21
Open full G5398 profile →ʼêmᵉtânîy · em-taw-nee'
well-loined (i.e. burly) or mighty
Strong's KJV usage: terrible.
Strong's first: Daniel 7:7Strong's last: Daniel 7:7
Open full H574 profile →dᵉchal · deh-khal'
to slink, i.e. (by implication) to fear, or (causatively) be formidable
Strong's KJV usage: make afraid, dreadful, fear, terrible.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:31Strong's last: Daniel 2:31
Open full H1763 profile →zalʻâphâh · zal-aw-faw'
a glow (of wind or anger); also a famine (as consuming)
Strong's KJV usage: horrible, horror, terrible.
Strong's first: Lamentations 5:10Strong's last: Lamentations 5:10
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And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
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TER'RIBLE, adjective [Latin terribilis, from terreo, to frighten.]
1. Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.
Prudent in peace, and terrible in war.
The form of the image was terrible Daniel 2:31.
2. Adapted to impress dread, terror or solemn awe and reverence.
The Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible Deuteronomy 7:21.
Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy. Psalms 99:3.
He hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. Deuteronomy 10:17.
3. adverb Severely; very; so as to give pain; as terrible cold; a colloquial phrase.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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