בַּלָּהָה ballahah
Hebrew word for “terror” · Strong’s H1091 · used 10 times in 10 verses
Meaning
terror, destruction, calamity, dreadful event
How it is translated
Glosses given for ballahah in context, with how often each is used:
- sudden terrors 5
- terrors 4
- sudden terror 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Job 18 (2), Job 24 (1), Job 27 (1), Job 30 (1), Psalms 73 (1), Isaiah 17 (1), Ezekiel 26 (1), Ezekiel 27 (1), Ezekiel 28 (1)
Forms
- בלהות 9
- בלהה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with ballahah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
Key verses
The verses using ballahah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 18:11 — Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- Job 18:14 — His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
- Job 24:17 — For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
- Job 27:20 — Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
- Job 30:15 — Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Psalms 73:19 — How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
- Isaiah 17:14 — And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
- Ezekiel 26:21 — I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 27:36 — The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
- Ezekiel 28:19 — All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
See all 10 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.