zaava · horror, object of terror

What it means

zaava (זַעֲוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “horror, object of terror”.

Something that makes those who see it tremble; also maltreatment.

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. What makes the onlooker tremble.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• terror ×3
• dread ×2
• horror ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Deuteronomy 28:25

  YHWH will make you defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them by one way and flee before them by seven ways; and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

• 2 Chronicles 29:8

  So the wrath of YHWH was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he gave them over to terror, to horror, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

• Jeremiah 15:4

  And I will make them an object of dread to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 29:18

  And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and a horror and a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

• Jeremiah 34:17

  Therefore thus says YHWH: You have not listened to me to proclaim liberty, each one to his brother and each one to his neighbor; look, I am proclaiming to you liberty, declares YHWH, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Ezekiel 23:46

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: Bring up against them an assembly, and give them over to dread and to plunder.