עָרִיץ arits
Hebrew word for “ruthless” · Strong’s H6184 · used 20 times in 20 verses
Meaning
awe-inspiring, terror-striking, awesome, terrifying, ruthless, mighty
How it is translated
Glosses given for arits in context, with how often each is used:
- ruthless people 10
- ruthless ones 4
- ruthless person 3
- ruthless 3
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Isaiah 25 (3), Isaiah 29 (2), Job 6 (1), Job 15 (1), Job 27 (1), Psalms 37 (1), Psalms 54 (1), Psalms 86 (1), Proverbs 11 (1), Isaiah 13 (1)
Forms
- עריצים 8
- עריץ 4
- עריצי 4
- ועריצים 2
- לעריץ 1
- ערצים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with arits more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- זוּר zur “be a stranger” 5
- גּוֹי goy “nation” 5
- צֵל tsel “shadow” 3
- רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 4
- גִּבּוֹר gibbor “mighty man” 3
- זֵד zed “arrogant” 2
- חֹרֶב chorev “drought” 2
- רִיק ruq “to empty” 2
- גָּאוֹן gaon “pride” 2
- חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 3
- פָּדָה padah “to ransom” 2
- הָמוֹן hamon “crowd” 2
Key verses
The verses using arits that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 27:13 — This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- Psalms 37:35 — I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Psalms 86:14 — O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
- Isaiah 13:11 — 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…
- Isaiah 25:3 — Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
- Isaiah 25:4 — 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…
- Isaiah 25:5 — 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…
- Isaiah 29:5 — 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…
- Isaiah 29:20 — For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
- Isaiah 49:25 — 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…
- Jeremiah 20:11 — But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they…
- Ezekiel 31:12 — And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his…
See all 20 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.