ed · calamity

What it means

ed (אֵיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “calamity”.

A great misfortune that falls on someone.

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 disaster that falls on someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×6
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Obadiah×3

• Deuteronomy 32:35

  Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot slips; for near is the day of their calamity, and what is prepared for them hurries on.’

• 2 Samuel 22:19

  They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but YHWH was my support.

• Job 18:12

  His vigor is hungry, and calamity is ready at his side.

• Job 21:17

  How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, and does their calamity come upon them, and does he distribute pains in his anger?

• Job 21:30

  that for the day of calamity the evil man is reserved, for the day of furies they are carried off?

• Job 30:12

  On my right the brood rises; they push away my feet and build up against me the paths of their calamity.

• Job 31:3

  Is it not calamity for the unjust, and disaster for those who work wickedness?

• Job 31:23

  For dread to me was the calamity of El, and because of his majesty I could not do it.

• Psalms 18:18

  They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but YHWH was my support.

• Proverbs 1:26

  I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,

• Proverbs 1:27

  when your dread comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

• Proverbs 6:15

  Therefore suddenly his calamity will come; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no healing.

• Proverbs 17:5

  Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

• Proverbs 24:22

  for suddenly their calamity will arise, and the ruin of them both, who knows it?

• Proverbs 27:10

  Your friend and your father’s friend do not abandon; and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

• Jeremiah 18:17

  Like the wind from the east I will scatter them before the enemy; the back and not the face I will show them in the day of their calamity.”

• Jeremiah 46:21

  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like calves from the stall; for they too have turned back, they have fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

• Jeremiah 48:16

  The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his evil hastens greatly.

• Jeremiah 49:8

  Flee, turn back, go down deep to dwell, inhabitants of Dedan! For the calamity of Esau I bring upon him, the time that I punish him.

• Jeremiah 49:32

  And their camels will become plunder, and the multitude of their livestock spoil; and I will scatter them to every wind, those clipped at the temples; and from all its sides I will bring their calamity, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 35:5

  Because you had an eternal enmity and poured out the sons of Israel into the hands of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end,

• Obadiah 1:13

  You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you should not have looked, you too, on his disaster on the day of his calamity, nor laid hands on his wealth on the day of his calamity.

And 2 more times.