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Isaiah 24:17

“Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

פַּחַדpachad · pakh'-ad
H6343 · Hebrew
Definition
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
Derivation
from H6342 (פָּחַד);
KJV renderings
dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.
Grammar
  • פַּ֥חַד — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HNcmsa
Usage
Occurs 49 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 31:42Genesis 31:53Exodus 15:16Deuteronomy 2:25Deuteronomy 11:25

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.