בֶּהָלָהbehâlâh

dismay, sudden terror or ruin (Leviticus 26:16; Jeremiah 15:8; Isaiah 65:23; Psalms 78:33)

Pronunciation: beh-haw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H928

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 26:16 I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them.
  • Psalms 78:33 So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.
  • Isaiah 65:23 They will not work in vain, and their children will not be doomed to misfortune. For they are people blessed by the Lord, and their children, too, will be blessed.
  • Jeremiah 15:8 There will be more widows than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will cause anguish and terror to come upon them suddenly.

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).