Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2189
זַעֲוָה
zaavahzah-av-aw'
horror
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zaʻăvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2189is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2189
agitation, maltreatment
The King James renders it: [idiom] removed, 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
zaavah is rendered "horror". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 28:25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:25לְזַעֲוָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into a terror6
- to terror1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- לְזַעֲוָ֔ה2
- לְזַֽעֲוָה֙1
- לְזַֽעֲוָ֔ה1
- לְזַעֲוָ֣ה1
- לְזַעֲוָ֜ה1
- לְזַעֲוָ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular7HR/Ncfsa
Deuteronomy
one use
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- לְזַעֲוָ֔הlezaavahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a terror
2 Chronicles
one use
Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.
- לְזַֽעֲוָה֙lizvaahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a terror
Jeremiah
four uses
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
- לְזַֽעֲוָ֔הlizvaahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a terror
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- לְזַעֲוָ֣הlizvaahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a terror
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
- לְזַעֲוָ֜הlizvaahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a terror
Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- לְזַעֲוָ֔הlizvaahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a terror
Ezekiel
one use
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
- לְזַעֲוָ֥הlezaavahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to terror
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.