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hor´ẽr ( אימה , 'ēmāh , פלּצוּת , pallācūth ): In Genesis 15:12 'ēmāh (often rendered "terror") is translated "horror," "a horror of great darkness"; pallācūth , "trembling," "horror" (Psalm 55:5; Ezekiel 7:18 ); zal‛āphāh , "glow," "heat" (Psalm 119:53 , the Revised Version (British and American) "hot indignation," margin "horror"); compare Psalm 11:6; Lamentations 5:10 . For "trembling" (Job 21:6 ) and for "fearfulness" (Isaiah 21:4 ) the Revised Version (British and American) has "horror." "Horror" does not occur in the New Testament, but in 2 Macc 3:17 we have "The man was so compassed with horror" (phrikasmós ), the Revised Version (British and American) "shuddering.»

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Horror'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/h/horror.html. 1915.

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