Hebrew verb · H1204
בָּעַת
baathbaw-ath'
to terrify
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâʻath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1204is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1204
to fear
The King James renders it: affright, be (make) afraid, terrify, 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
baath is rendered "to terrify". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 16:14After the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
After the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.
1 Samuel 16:14וּבִֽעֲתַ֥תּוּ
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
- he was terrified2
- it terrify me2
- they overwhelmed me2
- they terrify him2
- and it terrified him1
- I was terrified1
- it has overwhelmed me1
- it will terrify you1
- let them terrify it1
- terrifying you1
- will it terrify1
- you will terrify me1
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 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃3
- נִבְעַ֔ת2
- בִּֽעֲתֻ֣הוּ1
- בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְנִי1
- וּבִֽעֲתַ֥תּוּ1
- יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗הוּ1
- יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ1
- יְבַֽעֲתֽוּנִי׃1
- יְבַעֲתֻֽנִי׃1
- מְבַעִתֶּֽךָ׃1
- נִבְעַ֔תִּי1
- תְּבַעֵ֣ת1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpi3mp/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi3mp/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpj3fs/Sp1bs
- Hc/Vpq3fs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpq3fs/Sp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNp1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpi2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpi3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi3fs/Sp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3cp/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3fs/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVprmsc/Sp2ms
1 Samuel
two uses
After the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.
- וּבִֽעֲתַ֥תּוּuviatatuHc/Vpq3fs/Sp3mstagged: and it terrified him
Saul’s servants said to him, “Surely a spirit of distress from God is tormenting you.
- מְבַעִתֶּֽךָ׃mevaitekhaverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: terrifying you
2 Samuel
one use
For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- יְבַעֲתֻֽנִי׃yevaatuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they overwhelmed me
1 Chronicles
one use
but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
- נִבְעַ֔תnivatverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was terrified
Esther
one use
Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
- נִבְעַ֔תnivatverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was terrified
Job
eight uses
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗הוּyevaatuhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let them terrify it
then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃tevaataniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will terrify me
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
- תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃tevaataniverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it terrify me
Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
- תְּבַעֵ֣תtevaetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it terrify
Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
- תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃tevaataniverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it terrify me
Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
- יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּyevaatuhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they terrify him
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
- בִּֽעֲתֻ֣הוּbiatuhuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they terrify him
Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
- תְבַעֲתֶ֑ךָּtevaatekaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it will terrify you
Psalms
one use
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- יְבַֽעֲתֽוּנִי׃yevaatuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they overwhelmed me
Isaiah
one use
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְנִיbiatateniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it has overwhelmed me
Daniel
one use
As he came near to where I stood, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
- נִבְעַ֔תִּיnivativerb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was terrified
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.