חִתִּית
terror
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 8 times (89%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2851 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 8 verses
- Ezekiel 26:17 חִתִּיתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!
- Ezekiel 32:23 חִתִּ֖ית n c fs whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:24 חִתִּיתָ/ם֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:25 חִתִּיתָ֜/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
- Ezekiel 32:26 חִתִּיתָ֖/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:27 חִתִּ֥ית n c fs cs They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:30 בְּ/חִתִּיתָ֤/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:32 חתית/ו חִתִּיתִ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
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 חתית centers on the idea of “terror.” Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 8 of 8 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Ezekiel 26:17. Sharing its root, it stands alongside חתת, חת and חתה. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2851 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 8 verses 100%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 100%
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: Terror 7×
- American Standard Version: Terror 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Terror 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Brought terror 1×, Brought their terrors 1×, Had brought their terrors 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2851 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2851 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2851 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 H2851 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- terror
Word origin
n.f. terror, only Ezek.; abs. ח׳ Ez 32:23, but Co reads חִתִּיתָם (with 𝔊 and v 24, 26); cstr. id. 32:27; sf. חתיתו 32:32 Kt (> חִתִּיתִי Qr); חִתִּיתָם 32:24 + 2 times + 26:17 (read חִתִּיתָהּ, with 𝔊 Ew Co, see VB, 32:30 (read חַתִּים, v. ii. חת);—terror, caused by powerful cities, nations, kings, etc.: usually c. sf. as obj. genit. Ez 26:17 (of Tyre); elsewhere only Ez 32: v 27 (ח׳ גִּבּוֹרִים, 𝔖 Co ח׳ גבור תם), v 30 (חִתִּיתָם, but read חַתִּים, v. supr.); especially in phr. נָתַן ח׳ בארץ חַיִּים cause one’s terror (terror of oneself) in the land of the living v 23, 24, 25 (del. 𝔊 Co), v 26, 32.—חִתִּית Ez 16:3, 45 v. חִתִּי sub חֵת supr. p. 366.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חתת (châthath) (H2865) — to be dismayed.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חתות
- , v. חִיתִּית
חִתִּית
- , v. חִיתִּית
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H2851 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חִתִּיתָ֖/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 26:17 | 2 |
| בְּ/חִתִּיתָ֤/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:30 | 1 |
| חִתִּ֖ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 32:23 | 1 |
| חִתִּ֥ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:27 | 1 |
| חִתִּיתִ֖/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:32 | 1 |
| חִתִּיתָ/ם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:24 | 1 |
| חִתִּיתָ֜/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:25 | 1 |
| חתית/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:32 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2851, 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
Shares the same root
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 → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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