Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4288
מְחִתָּה
mechittahmekh-it-taw'
terror
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉchittâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4288is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4288
properly, a dissolution; concretely, a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation
The King James renders it: destruction, dismaying, ruin, 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
mechittah is rendered "terror". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 89:40You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
Psalms 89:40מְחִתָּה׃
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
- ruin2
- ruin of2
- a ruin1
- and destruction1
- and from terror1
- and into an object of terror1
- and terror1
- destruction1
- into an object of 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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗ה2
- מְחִתָּה־2
- וְלִמְחִתָּ֖ה1
- וּמִ֨מְּחִתָּ֔ה1
- לִמְחִתָּ֑ה1
- מְחִתָּ֥ה1
- מְחִתָּה׃1
- מְחִתַּ֖ת1
- מְחִתַּ֥ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular2HC/R/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Psalms
one use
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
- מְחִתָּה׃mechitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a ruin
Proverbs
seven uses
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
- מְחִתָּ֥הmechitahnoun · feminine singulartagged: destruction
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- מְחִתַּ֖תmechitatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruin of
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
- וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗הumechitahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and destruction
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
- מְחִתָּה־mechitah-noun · feminine singulartagged: ruin
A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
- מְחִתַּ֥תmechitatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruin of
A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
- מְחִתָּה־mechitah-noun · feminine singulartagged: ruin
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
- וּ֝מְחִתָּ֗הumechitahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and terror
Isaiah
one use
In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.
- וּמִ֨מְּחִתָּ֔הumimechitahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and from terror
Jeremiah
two uses
Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
- לִמְחִתָּ֑הlimchitahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into an object of terror
“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
- וְלִמְחִתָּ֖הvelimchitahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and into an object of 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.
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.