| Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia HORRIBLE hor'-i-b'-l (sha`arur, sha`aruri): In Jeremiah 5:30 sha`arur, "vile," "horrible," is translated "horrible," "a wonderful and horrible thing" the Revised Version margin "astonishment and horror"; also Jeremiah 23:14; in 18:13; Hosea 6:10 it is sha`aruri; in Psalm 11:6 we have zil`aphah, "heat," the Revised Version (British and American) "burning wind"; in Psalm 40:2 sha'on, "noise," "tumult," "He brought me up. out of a horrible pit," the Revised Version margin "a pit of tumult" (or destruction). Horribly is the translation of sa`ar, "to shudder," "to be whirled away," in Jeremiah 2:12, and of sa`ar, "fear," "trembling," in Ezekiel 32:10; in Ezekiel 27:35 the Revised Version (British and American) has "horribly afraid" (sa`ar) for "sore afraid." "Horrible" occurs frequently in Apocrypha (2 Esdras 11:45; 15:28, 34; The Wisdom of Solomon 3:19, "For horrible (chalepos) is the end of the unrighteous generation" the Revised Version (British and American) "grievous" etc.).
W. L. Walker |  | Multi-Version Concordance Horrible (12 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 7:15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. (See NIV) 1 Kings 15:13 and also Maachah his mother -- he turneth her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and burneth 'it' by the brook Kidron; (YLT) 2 Chronicles 15:16 And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king -- he hath removed her from 'being' mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth 'it' small, and burneth 'it' by the brook Kidron: (YLT) Psalms 11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. (KJV WBS YLT) Psalms 40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. (WEB KJV ASV WBS) Jeremiah 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV) Jeremiah 23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 26:21 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh. (See NIV) Ezekiel 27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. (See NIV) Ezekiel 28:19 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you have become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. (See NIV) Hosea 6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) |
