Hebrew noun (feminine) · H928
בֶּהָלָה
behalahbeh-haw-law'
dismay
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: behâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H928is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H928
panic, 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
behalah is rendered "dismay". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Leviticus 26:16בֶּֽהָלָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and sudden terror1
- for the sudden terror1
- in the sudden terror1
- sudden 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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בַּבֶּהָלָֽה׃1
- בֶּֽהָלָה֙1
- וּבֶהָלֽוֹת׃1
- לַבֶּהָלָ֑ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular2HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Leviticus
one use
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- בֶּֽהָלָה֙behalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sudden terror
Psalms
one use
So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
- בַּבֶּהָלָֽה׃babehalahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the sudden terror
Isaiah
one use
They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
- לַבֶּהָלָ֑הlabehalahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the sudden terror
Jeremiah
one use
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- וּבֶהָלֽוֹת׃uvehalotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and sudden 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.