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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
Open full H2152 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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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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