Gematria of Terror
13 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “terror” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,741 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 13
- Occurrences
- 1,741
- Distinct values
- 12
The 13 Hebrew words rendered “terror”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
First appearance ·Genesis 3:22בראשית ג:כביָדוֹ
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
First appearance ·Genesis 31:42בראשית לא:מבוּפַחַד
fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
First appearance ·Genesis 15:12בראשית טו:יבאֵימָה
fear; by implication, a fearful thing or deed
First appearance ·Genesis 9:2בראשית ט:בוּמוֹרַאֲכֶם
properly, a dissolution; concretely, a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation
First appearance ·Isaiah 54:14ישעיהו נד:ידוּמִמְּחִתָּה
alarm; hence, destruction
First appearance ·Isaiah 17:14ישעיהו יז:ידבַלָּהָה
a fright (objective or subjective)
First appearance ·Isaiah 31:9ישעיהו לא:טמִמָּגוֹר
panic, destruction
First appearance ·Leviticus 26:16ויקרא כו:טזבֶּֽהָלָה
to yield up; intensively, to precipitate
First appearance ·Ezekiel 21:17יחזקאל כא:יזמְגוּרֵי
properly, vertigo, i.e. (figuratively) fear
First appearance ·Isaiah 19:17ישעיהו יט:יזלְחָגָּא
violence
First appearance ·Isaiah 10:33ישעיהו י:לגבְּמַעֲרָצָה
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of terror?
The Tanakh renders “terror” with 13 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: יד = 14, פחד = 92, אימה = 56, and 10 more.
How do you say terror in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 13 Hebrew words for “terror”; the most frequent are יד (yâd), 1,617 times; פחד (pachad), 49 times; אימה (ʼêymâh), 17 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.