חַת
chat · dread, terror
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2844 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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chat (חַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dread, terror”.
Dismayed.
How to say it
chat
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
- Broken in pieces, or so afraid that one cannot react.
- A very great fear that falls upon someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- are dismayed ×1
- broken ×1
- dread ×1
- fear ×1
- will be shattered ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 9:2
And the fear and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are given.
- 1 Samuel 2:4
The bow of the mighty is broken, and those who stumbled have girded on strength.
- Job 41:33
There is not on the dust its like, one made to be without fear.
- Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
- Jeremiah 46:5
Why have I seen it? They are dismayed, turning back, and their mighty men are beaten down, and they have fled in flight and do not turn around; terror on every side, declares YHWH.