STRONGS NUMBER H928


Word Summary
behalah: dismay, sudden terror or ruin
Original Word: בֶּהָלָה
Transliteration: behalah
Phonetic Spelling: (beh-haw-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: dismay, sudden terror or ruin
Meaning: dismay, sudden terror or ruin
Strong's Concordance
terror, trouble

From bahal; panic, destruction -- terror, trouble.

see HEBREW bahal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H928. behalah

ֶבּהָלָהnoun feminine dismay, sudden terror or ruin (compare Assyrian bêltu, terror, DlPr 32) — ׳בּ‎ absolute Leviticus 26:16 2t.; plural וֶּבהָלוֺתJeremiah 15:8; — sudden terror Leviticus 26:16 בּ עֲלֵיכֶם ׳וְהִפְקַדְתִּ֫י‎ (appositives follow); compare Jeremiah 15:8; Isaiah 65:23 לַבֶּהָלָה יֵָֽלְדוּ לֹא‎, Psalm 78:33 בַּבֶּהָלָה וּשְׁנוֺתָם יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וַיְכַלבַּֿהֶבֶלand he ended their days in a breath, and their years in sudden terror.

בהם‎ (Arabic , IV. shut, x. impeded in speech, tongue-tied; Ethiopic be dumb).