Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1091
בַּלָּהָה
ballahahbal-law-haw'
terror
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ballâhâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1091is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1091
alarm; hence, destruction
The King James renders it: terror, trouble.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ballahah is rendered "terror". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
Job 18:11בַלָּה֑וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sudden terrors5
- terrors3
- sudden terror1
- terrors of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּלָּה֣וֹת2
- בַּלָּהֽוֹת׃2
- בַלָּהָ֔ה1
- בַלָּה֑וֹת1
- בַּלְה֥וֹת1
- בַּלָּה֑וֹת1
- בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹת1
- בַּלָּה֥וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural8HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Job
five uses
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- בַלָּה֑וֹתvalahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sudden terrors
He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
- בַּלָּהֽוֹת׃balahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sudden terrors
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
- בַּלְה֥וֹתbalhotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: terrors of
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
- בַּלָּה֑וֹתbalahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sudden terrors
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹתbalahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sudden terrors
Psalms
one use
How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- בַּלָּהֽוֹת׃balahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sudden terrors
Isaiah
one use
In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
- בַלָּהָ֔הvalahahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sudden terror
Ezekiel
three uses
I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- בַּלָּה֥וֹתbalahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: terrors
Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
- בַּלָּה֣וֹתbalahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: terrors
All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
- בַּלָּה֣וֹתbalahotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: terrors
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.