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Greek

5398. phoberos -- fearful
... fearful. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: phoberos Phonetic Spelling:
(fob-er-os') Short Definition: fearful, dreadful Definition: fearful, dreadful ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6178. aruts -- dreadful
... 6177, 6178. aruts. 6179 . dreadful. Transliteration: aruts Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-roots') Short Definition: dreadful. Word Origin ...
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366. ayom -- terrible, dreadful
... 365b, 366. ayom. 367 . terrible, dreadful. Transliteration: ayom Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-yome') Short Definition: awesome. Word Origin ...
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1091. ballahah -- terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction
... ballahah. 1092 . terror, dreadful event, calamity, destruction. Transliteration:
ballahah Phonetic Spelling: (bal-law-haw') Short Definition: terrors. ...
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1763. dechal -- to fear
... to fear. Transliteration: dechal Phonetic Spelling: (deh-khal') Short Definition:
dreadful. Word Origin (Aramaic) a prim. ... make afraid, dreadful, fear, terrible. ...
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3374. yirah -- a fear
... dreadful, exceedingly, fearfulness. Feminine of yare'; fear (also used as infinitive);
morally, reverence -- X dreadful, X exceedingly, fear(-fulness). ...
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6343. pachad -- dread
... 10), terrors (1), unconcerned* (1), what (1). dreadful, fear, thing great
fear terror. From pachad; a (sudden) alarm (properly, the ...
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3372. yare' -- to fear
... affright, be make afraid, dreadful, put in fearful reverence, terrible
act, A primitive root; to fear; morally, to revere; caus. ...
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Library

Death Dreadful or Delightful.
... Hymns. Book 2. Composed on Divine Subjects. Hymn 2:52. Death dreadful or
delightful. 1 Death! 'tis a melancholy day To those that ...
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Dreadful Forms of Terror and Frightful Bugbears on Account of ...
... Book VI. 26 O dreadful forms of terror and frightful bugbears on account
of which the human race� O dreadful forms of terror and ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/26 o dreadful forms of.htm

Not to Sinai's Dreadful Blaze, Heb 12:18,22
... VIII. SHORT HYMNS: BEFORE SERMON. Hymn 94 Not to Sinai's dreadful blaze, Heb
12:18,22. John Newton 8,7,8,7. Not to Sinai's dreadful blaze, Heb 12:18,22. ...
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Death Dreadful or Delightful.
... Hymns, Book II HYMN 52 Death dreadful or delightful. CM Death dreadful or delightful.
Death! 'Tis a melancholy day. To those that have no God,. ...
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If Anything yet Remaineth that is Dreadful
... THE FOURTH CENTURY 73 If anything yet remaineth that is dreadful. If anything
yet remaineth that is dreadful, or terrible or doubtful ...
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Having Therefore done Many and Dreadful Things against Jesus that ...
... Chapter 3. Having therefore done many and dreadful things against Jesus
that night� Having therefore done many and dreadful things ...
/.../the narrative of joseph of arimathaea/chapter 3 having therefore done.htm

Next He Tells us of the "Fourth Beast, Dreadful and Terrible...
... Piece XVI. Next he tells us of the "fourth beast, dreadful and terrible�
Next he tells us of the "fourth beast, dreadful and terrible ...
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Ep. cxli. The People of Nazianzus had in Some Way Incurred the ...
... The death of a single man, who to-day is and to-morrow will not be and
will not return to us is of course a dreadful thing. But ...
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Bunyan's Dying Sayings.
... of God. How dreadful therefore must his case be who continues in sin; for
who can bear and grapple with the wrath of God? No sin ...
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Mr. John Bunyan's Dying Sayings.
... it. Sin, and man for sin, is the object of the wrath of God. How dreadful,
therefore, must his case be who continues in sin! For ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/mr john bunyans dying sayings.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.

2. (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.

3. (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

Thesaurus

Dreadful (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful. 2. (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great
fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. ...Dreadful (23 Occurrences). ...
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Awe (32 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense
of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder ...
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Death (1610 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) Murder; murderous character. 8. (vi) Loss of spiritual life. 9. (vi) Anything
so dreadful as to be like death. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Terrible (90 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread;
dreadful; formidable. 2. (a.) Excessive; extreme; severe. Int. ...
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Dreaded (11 Occurrences)

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Awesome (47 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Ezekiel 1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they
four had their rims full of eyes all around. (See NAS NIV). ...
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Plagues (28 Occurrences)
... It would be some time in the month of May. The dreadful severity of the
plague constituted the "wonder" in this first plague. The ...
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Dread (69 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) Fury; dreadfulness. 8. (n.) Doubt; as, out of dread. 9. (a.) Exciting great
fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. 10. ...
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Voweth (8 Occurrences)
... his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for
I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the ...
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Keepest (16 Occurrences)
... Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made confession, and said, Oh,
Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with ...
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Bible Concordance

Dreadful (23 Occurrences)

Revelation 16:18 Flashes of lightning followed, and voices, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake more dreadful than there had ever been since there was a man upon the earth--so terrible was it, and so great!
(WEY)

Genesis 15:12 And it came to pass, that, when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a dread, even a great darkness, fell upon him.
(See NIV)

Genesis 28:17 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Deuteronomy 1:19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
(See JPS NIV)

Deuteronomy 8:15 who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
(See JPS NIV)

Job 6:21 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
(See NIV)

Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
(KJV WBS)

Job 30:6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 8:12 Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
(See JPS)

Ezekiel 1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes all around.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Ezekiel 14:21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
(See 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 RSV)

Ezekiel 27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
(See RSV)

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 RSV)

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Daniel 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
(KJV DBY WBS NAS)

Daniel 9:4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Joel 2:11 Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
(See NIV)

Joel 2:31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
(See NIV)

Habakkuk 1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
(KJV WBS)

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
(KJV WBS NIV)

Subtopics

Dreadful

Related Terms

Awe (32 Occurrences)

Death (1610 Occurrences)

Terrible (90 Occurrences)

Dreaded (11 Occurrences)

Awesome (47 Occurrences)

Plagues (28 Occurrences)

Dread (69 Occurrences)

Voweth (8 Occurrences)