arits · ruthless, tyrant

What it means

arits (עָרִיץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ruthless, tyrant”.

A ruthless man, a powerful one who strikes terror; violent.

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. A violent, frightening strongman.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tyrants ×10
• tyrant ×4
• fearsome ones ×3
• fearsome ×1
• like a dreadful ×1
• terrible ones ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4

• Job 6:23

  and ‘Rescue me from the hand of the adversary,’ and ‘From the hand of tyrants ransom me’?

• Job 15:20

  All the days of the wicked, he writhes in pain, and through the number of years stored up for the tyrant.

• Job 27:13

  This is the portion of a wicked human being with El, and the inheritance that tyrants receive from Shaddai:

• Psalms 37:35

  I have seen a fearsome wicked man, spreading himself out like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

• Psalms 54:3

  For strangers have risen up against me, and tyrants seek my soul; they have not set Elohim before them. Selah.

• Psalms 86:14

  Elohim, insolent men have risen against me, and a community of tyrants seeks my soul; and they have not set you before them.

• Proverbs 11:16

  A gracious woman holds fast to honor, and tyrants hold fast to riches.

• Isaiah 13:11

  And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, and the arrogance of tyrants I will bring low.

• Isaiah 25:3

  Therefore a strong people will honor you; the town of tyrant nations will fear you.

• Isaiah 25:4

  For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the downpour, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the tyrants is like a downpour against a wall.

• Isaiah 25:5

  Like heat in a dry land, the uproar of strangers you subdue; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is brought low.

• Isaiah 29:5

  And the multitude of your strangers will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the tyrants like chaff that passes away; and it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the tyrant has come to nothing, and the scoffer is finished, and all who watch for wickedness will be cut off,

• Isaiah 49:25

  For thus says YHWH: “Even the captives of the mighty one will be taken, and the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; and with the one who contends with you I will contend, and your children I will save.

• Jeremiah 15:21

  And I will rescue you from the hand of the evil, and I will ransom you from the palm of the tyrants.”

• Jeremiah 20:11

  But YHWH is with me like a dreadful mighty man; therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail; they will be greatly ashamed, for they have not succeeded; their eternal ignominy will not be forgotten.

• Ezekiel 28:7

  therefore, look, I am bringing against you strangers, the terrible ones of the nations; and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and profane your splendor.

• Ezekiel 30:11

  He and his people with him, the fearsome ones of the nations, are brought to destroy the land; and they will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with slain.

• Ezekiel 31:12

  And strangers cut it down, the fearsome ones of the nations, and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell, and its foliage was broken in all the watercourses of the earth; and all the peoples of the earth came down from its shade and left it.

• Ezekiel 32:12

  By the swords of mighty men I will make your multitude fall, the fearsome ones of the nations, all of them; and they will devastate the pride of Egypt, and all her multitude will be exterminated.