Midvash

בַּלָּהָהballâhâh

terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction

Pronunciation: bal-law-haw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1091

Meanings

1. terrors (Job 18:11; Job 27:20; Job 30:15)

2. calamity (Isaiah 17:14; Psalms 73:19; Ezekiel 26:21)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • Job 18:11 “Terrors surround the wicked and trouble them at every step.
  • Job 18:14 They are torn from the security of their homes and are brought down to the king of terrors.
  • Job 24:17 The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.
  • Job 27:20 Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
  • Job 30:15 I live in terror now. My honor has blown away in the wind, and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.
  • Psalms 73:19 In an instant they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).