ema · terror

What it means

ema (אֵימָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “terror”.

Great fear; also an idol, an object of dread.

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 great fear.
2. Images that cause dread and that some worship.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• terror ×13
• terrors ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Ezra×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 15:12

  As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and look, a terror, a great darkness, was falling on him.

• Exodus 15:16

  Terror and dread fell upon them; by the greatness of your arm they were as still as a stone, until your people, YHWH, passed by, until the people whom you acquired passed by.

• Exodus 23:27

  My terror I will send before you, and I will throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.

• Joshua 2:9

  and she said to the men, “I know that YHWH has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.

• Ezra 3:3

  And they set the altar on its bases, for terror was on them because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to YHWH, burnt offerings for the morning and for the evening.

• Job 9:34

  Let him remove from upon me his rod, and let his terror not terrify me.

• Job 13:21

  put your palm far from upon me, and let your terror not terrify me.

• Job 20:25

  He draws it out, and it comes out from his back, and the lightning goes from his gall; upon him are terrors.

• Job 33:7

  Look, terror of me will not terrify you, and my burden upon you will not be heavy.

• Job 39:20

  Do you make him leap like the locust? The splendor of his snorting is terror.

• Job 41:14

  The doors of its face who has opened? Around its teeth is terror.

• Psalms 55:4

  My heart writhes within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

• Psalms 88:15

  Afflicted am I and dying from youth; I have borne your terrors; I am bewildered.

• Proverbs 20:2

  Like the roar of a young lion is the terror of a king; whoever angers him sins against his soul.

• Isaiah 33:18

  Your heart will meditate on the terror: “Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed? Where is the one who counted the towers?”

• Jeremiah 50:38

  A drought upon her waters, and they will dry up! For it is a land of carved images, and over terrors they go mad.