בֶּהָלָה
behala · sudden terror
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H928 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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behala (בֶּהָלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sudden terror”.
Dismay.
How to say it
be·ha·la
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
- A sudden dread that falls on someone without warning.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- terror ×3
- terrors ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 26:16
then I will do this to you: I will appoint over you terror, wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and drain the life; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
- Psalms 78:33
And he consumed in vapor their days, and their years in sudden terror.
- Isaiah 65:23
They will not wear themselves out in vain, nor bear children for terror; for they are the offspring of the blessed of YHWH, and their offshoots with them.
- Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows became more numerous before me than the sand of the seas; I brought upon them, upon the mother of the young man, a destroyer at noonday; I made fall upon her suddenly anguish and terrors.