Hebrew noun (feminine) · H367
אֵימָה
emahay-maw'
terror
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼêymâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H367is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H367
fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
The King James renders it: dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
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
emah is rendered "terror". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Six of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
Genesis 15:12אֵימָ֛ה
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
- terror5
- and dread his1
- and dread your1
- and in the terrors1
- and terrors of1
- dread1
- dread of me1
- dread your1
- in terror1
- terror my1
- terror of1
- terrors1
and 1 more, 17 uses in all
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- אֵימָ֑ה2
- אֵימָֽה׃2
- אֵימָ֛ה1
- אֵ֣ימַת1
- אֵימָ֙תָה֙1
- אֵֽימָתִי֙1
- אֵֽימַתְכֶם֙1
- אֵמֶ֣יךָ1
- אֵמִֽים׃1
- אֵ֭מָתִי1
- בְּאֵימָ֣ה1
- וְאֵימ֥וֹת1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
- אֵימָ֛הʾeimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dread
Exodus
two uses
and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
- אֵימָ֙תָה֙ʾeimatahnoun · feminine singulartagged: terror
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
- אֵֽימָתִי֙ʾeimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: terror my
Deuteronomy
one use
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
- אֵימָ֑הʾeimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: terror
Joshua
one use
and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
- אֵֽימַתְכֶם֙ʾeimatkhemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: dread your
Ezra
one use
They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.
- בְּאֵימָ֣הbeeimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in terror
Job
six uses
Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
- וְ֝אֵמָת֗וֹveematoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and dread his
Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
- וְ֝אֵ֥מָתְךָ֗veematekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and dread your
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
- אֵמִֽים׃ʾemimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: terrors
Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
- אֵ֭מָתִיʾematinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: dread of me
Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
- אֵימָֽה׃ʾeimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: terror
Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
- אֵימָֽה׃ʾeimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: terror
Psalms
two uses
My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
- וְאֵימ֥וֹתveeimotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and terrors of
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- אֵמֶ֣יךָʾemeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: terrors your
Proverbs
one use
The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
- אֵ֣ימַתʾeimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: terror of
Isaiah
one use
Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
- אֵימָ֑הʾeimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: terror
Jeremiah
one use
A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
- וּבָאֵימִ֖יםuvaeimimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and in the 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.