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Calamity
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'Êyd (אֵיד, Strong's #343), “calamity; disaster.” A possible cognate of this word appears in Arabic. Its 24 biblical appearances occur in every period of biblical Hebrew (12 in wisdom literature and only 1 in poetical literature, the Psalms).This word signifies a “disaster” or “calamity” befalling a nation or individual. When used of a nation, it represents a “political or military event”: “To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste” (Deut. 32:35— first occurrence). The prophets tend to use 'êyd in the sense of national “disaster,” while Wisdom writers use it for “personal tragedy.”
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Calamity'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/vot/c/calamity.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Calamity'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/vot/c/calamity.html. 1940.
