chitit · terror

What it means

chitit (חִתִּית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “terror”.

The dread that someone causes in others.

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. The fear that someone spreads.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezekiel 26:17

  And they will raise over you a dirge and say to you, ‘How you have perished, inhabited from the seas, the city that was praised, which was strong on the sea, she and her inhabitants, who put their terror on all her inhabitants!

• Ezekiel 32:23

  whose graves were put in the deepest parts of the pit, and her assembly is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who put terror in the land of the living.

• Ezekiel 32:24

  There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, those fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the land of the depths, who put their terror in the land of the living; and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 32:25

  In the midst of the slain they have set a bed for her with all her multitude; around him are her graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was put in the land of the living, and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; in the midst of the slain he was put.

• Ezekiel 32:26

  There are Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; around him are her graves, all of them uncircumcised, pierced by the sword; for they put their terror in the land of the living.

• Ezekiel 32:27

  And they do not lie with the mighty men who fell from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and they put their swords under their heads, and their iniquities were on their bones; for the terror of mighty men was in the land of the living.

• Ezekiel 32:30

  There are the princes of the north, all of them, and every Sidonian, who went down with the slain with their terror, because of their might ashamed; and they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 32:32

  For I have put my terror in the land of the living; and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares Adonai YHWH.”