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Frightful; adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable.
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First occurrence: Exodus 34:10
Complete exact-word concordance
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee, the city of the terrible nations shall feare thee.
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
For thou hast bene a strength to the poore, a strength to the needy in his distresse, a refuge from the storme, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storme against the wall.
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Thou shalt bring downe the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; euen the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shalbe brought low.
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Moreouer the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shalbe as chaffe, that passeth away; yea it shalbe at an instant suddenly.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquitie are cut off:
But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
But thus saith the LORD, Euen the captiues of the mightie shall be taken away, and the pray of the terrible shall be deliuered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will saue thy children.
1611 marginal noteHeb. captiuitie.
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
When thou diddest terrible things which wee looked not for, thou camest downe, the mountaines flowed downe at thy presence.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
And I will deliuer thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeeme thee out of the hand of the terrible.
But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutours shall stumble, and they shall not preuaile, they shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not prosper, their euerlasting confusion shall neuer be forgotten.
1611 marginal noteChap. 17.18. and 15.20.
1611 marginal noteChap. 23.40.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
1611 marginal noteOr, terrors or stormes.
1611 marginal notePsal.11.38
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