תְּוַהּ
to be alarmed
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8429 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Daniel 1 verse
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.
תוה (tᵉvahh) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to be alarmed.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Daniel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Daniel 3:24. Related forms include תמה, תמה and תמהון. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8429 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Was astonied 1×
- American Standard Version: Was astonished 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was astonished 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8429 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8429 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render H8429 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8429 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- (Peal) to be startled, be alarmed
Word origin
תְּוַהּ vb. be startled, alarmed;— Pe. Dn 3:24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תמה (tâmahh) (H8539) — to be astounded.
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.
תָּוָה
- , v. תוי
תְּוַהּ
- (cmp. תְּהַהּ)
- 1. to be perplexed; to fear, be anxious (corresp. to h. חרד). Targ. O. Gen. XXVII, 33. Targ. Job XXXVII, 1 יתוה (ed. Lag. יִתְוַוהּ; some ed. יְתַיָּוא Pa.). Targ. Jer. XXXVI, 24 (h. text פחד). Targ. Y. Num. XXXIII, 24. Targ. Koh. IV, 16 תְּוָוהוּ ed. Lag. (ed. Vien. תְּיָהוּ, read תְּוָהוּ). Targ. O. Deut. XXVIII, 66, sq. תָּוַהּ ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. תָּוֵה). Targ. Esth. V, 14 ת׳ לצפרא (ed. Vien. תַּוָּה Pa.) waited anxiously for the morning; a. fr.—Tanḥ. Emor 10 תַּוְהוּ כולי עלמא all the people were perplexed (marvelled); Yalk. Mic. 554 תמהו אומות העולם (corr. acc.).
- 2. to shudder, be disgusted. Pes. 50ᵇ תַּוְוהוּ ביה אינשי Ms. M. people are disgusted with it (dislike the occupation), v. תְּהֵי.
- same, v. supra.
- to disgust. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 41 אַתְווּ תִוְהָא ed. Wil. (ed. Lag. איתיו תִיוְהָא, corr. acc.).
תָּוֶה
- (preced.) anxiety. — Pl. תְּוָהִים, תְּוָו׳. Sabb. 152ᵃ (ref. to חתחתים, Koh. XII, 5) נעשה לבו ת׳ Ms. M. (ed. נעשה לו ת׳, some ed. נעשו, v. infra; Ag. Hatt. תִּיוְהִין תיוהין) his heart is full of fears; Yalk. Koh. 989 נעשה לו תִוְוהִין תווהין it (the road) becomes for him full of terrors. e.g. Ecclesiastes 12:5
תוי
- (?); sec. r. of אָוָה II), Pi. תִּוָּוה to mark. Lev. R. s. 18 מְתַוֶּוה תוואים (ed. Wil. מתאווה), v. אָוָה II.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8429, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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