בַּלָּהָה
terror
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1091 appears in the Book of Ezekiel — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 26:21 בַּלָּה֥וֹת n c fp I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 27:36 בַּלָּה֣וֹת n c fp The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
- Ezekiel 28:19 בַּלָּה֣וֹת n c fp All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun בלהה centers on the idea of “terror.” Job dominates its distribution — 5 of 10 verses. Spanning 10 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Job 18:11, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside בלה, בלהה and בלהן. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1091 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Terrors 5×, Thee thou shalt be a terror 2×
- American Standard Version: Terrors 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Terrors 6×, Horrible end 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Terrors 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1091 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1091 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1091 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1091 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. only pl. terrors Jb 18:11; 27:20; 30:15; מֶלֶךְ בּ׳ Jb 18:14 = death, cf. בּ׳ צַלְמָוֶת Jb 24:17. e.g. Job 18:11
- 2. calamity Is 17:14, pl. ψ 73:19; calamity, destruction Ez 26:21; 27:36; 28:19. e.g. Isaiah 17:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction—בַּלָּהָה Is 17:14; pl. בַּלָּהוֹת Jb 18:11 + 7 times; cstr. בַּלְהוֹת Jb 24:17;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בלה (bâlahh) (H1089) — to trouble.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H1091 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּלָּה֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 27:36 | 2 |
| בַּלָּהֽוֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 18:14 | 2 |
| בַלָּה֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 18:11 | 1 |
| בַלָּהָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 17:14 | 1 |
| בַּלְה֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Job 24:17 | 1 |
| בַּלָּ֫ה֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 30:15 | 1 |
| בַּלָּה֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 27:20 | 1 |
| בַּלָּה֥וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 26:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1091, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
