arats · be terrified, dread

What it means

arats (עָרַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be terrified, dread”.

Be in dread or terror; also to strike with terror.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To tremble with fear.
2. To fill others with fear.
3. To look on God with respect and awe, as the Holy One.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• be terrified ×6
• terror ×3
• terrify ×2
• I dreaded ×1
• Will you terrorize ×1
• feared ×1
• they will stand in dread of ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×6

• Deuteronomy 1:29

  I said to you, “Do not be terrified, and do not fear them.

• Deuteronomy 7:21

  Do not be terrified of them, for YHWH your Elohim is in your midst, a great and fearsome El.

• Deuteronomy 20:3

  and say to them, “Hear, Israel: you are drawing near today to war against your enemies. Do not let your heart grow soft; do not be afraid, and do not panic, and do not be terrified before them,

• Deuteronomy 31:6

  Be strong and firm; do not fear and do not be terrified before them, for YHWH your Elohim, he is the one who goes with you; he will not let go of you or forsake you.”

• Joshua 1:9

  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and firm. Do not be terrified or dismayed, for YHWH your Elohim is with you wherever you go.”

• Job 13:25

  Will you terrorize a windblown leaf, and pursue dry straw?

• Job 31:34

  because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silent and did not go out of the door…

• Psalms 10:18

  to do justice to the orphan and the oppressed, so that the mortal of the earth may no longer strike terror.

• Psalms 89:7

  El greatly feared in the intimate council of the holy ones, and fearsome above all who surround him.

• Isaiah 2:19

  And they will go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the dust, from before the dread of YHWH and from the majesty of his loftiness, when he rises to terrify the earth.

• Isaiah 2:21

  to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the crevices of the crags, from before the dread of YHWH and from the majesty of his loftiness, when he rises to terrify the earth.

• Isaiah 8:12

  “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and what it fears do not fear, and do not be terrified.

• Isaiah 8:13

  YHWH Tsevaot, him you shall regard as holy; and he shall be your fear, and he your terror.

• Isaiah 29:23

  For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and the Elohim of Israel they will stand in dread of.

• Isaiah 47:12

  Stand now with your spells and with the great number of your sorceries, in which you have worn yourself out from your youth; perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will cause terror.