balaha · terror

What it means

balaha (בַּלָּהָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “terror”.

Sudden dread; also the ruin that causes it. Almost always plural.

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. Sudden fright, or the ruin that causes it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• terrors ×5
• dreads ×3
• horrors ×1
• terror ×1

Where it appears

• Job×5
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Job 18:11

  All around terrors terrify him, and chase him at his heels.

• Job 18:14

  He is torn from his tent, his security, and they march him to the king of terrors.

• Job 24:17

  For to all of them morning is the shadow of death, for they recognize the terrors of the shadow of death.

• Job 27:20

  Terrors overtake him like waters; by night the whirlwind steals him away.

• Job 30:15

  Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue like the wind my nobility, and like a cloud my salvation has passed away.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they have become a desolation in a moment! They have come to an end, they have been consumed by horrors.

• Isaiah 17:14

  At the time of evening, look, terror! Before morning it is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who despoil us.

• Ezekiel 26:21

  Dreads I will make you, and you will be no more; and you will be sought but you will not be found again forever, declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 27:36

  The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; dreads you have become, and you will be no more forever.’”

• Ezekiel 28:19

  All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; dreads you have become, and you will be no more forever.’”