KJV dictionary & concordance
Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 11:6
Complete exact-word concordance
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
Upon the wicked hee shall raine snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
1611 marginal noteOr, a burning tempest.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a pit of noise.
¶ A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
¶ A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the land.
1611 marginal noteOr, astonishmen and filthinesse.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Aske ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things? the Uirgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
1611 marginal noteChap. 2.10.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
I haue seene also in the prophets of Ierusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walke in lies: they strengthen also the hands of euill doers, that none doeth returne from his wickednesse: they are all of them vnto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
1611 marginal noteOr, filthinesse.
1611 marginal noteIsa. 1.9.
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
I haue seene an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredome of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous.
