Topic
Horrible
12 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 11:6ISBE
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 40:2ISBE
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.
- Jeremiah 2:12ISBE
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:30ISBE
¶ A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
- Jeremiah 23:14ISBE
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…
- Ezekiel 27:35ISBE
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
- Ezekiel 32:10ISBE
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
- Hosea 6:10ISBE
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:19ISBE
For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.
- 2 Esdras 11:45ISBE
And therefore appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy horrible wings, nor thy wicked feathers nor thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful claws, nor all thy vain body:
- 2 Esdras 15:28ISBE
Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:
- 2 Esdras 15:34ISBE
Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 13 references
hor'-i-b'-l (sha`arur, sha`aruri): In Jer 5:30 sha`arur, "vile," "horrible," is translated "horrible," "a wonderful and horrible thing" the Revised Version margin "astonishment and horror"; also Jer 23:14; in 18:13; Ho 6:10 it is sha`aruri; in Ps 11:6 we have zil`aphah, "heat," the Revised Version (British and American) "burning wind"; in Ps 40:2 sha'on, "noise," "tumult," "He brought me up .... out of a horrible pit," the Revised Version margin "a pit of tumult" (or destruction). Horribly is the translation of sa`ar, "to shudder," "to be whirled away," in Jer 2:12, and of sa`ar, "fear," "trembling," in Eze 32:10; in Eze 27:35 the Revised Version (British and American) has "horribly afraid" (sa`ar) for "sore afraid." "Horrible" occurs frequently in Apocrypha (2 Esdras 11:45; 15:28,34; The Wisdom of Solomon 3:19, "For horrible (chalepos) is the end of the unrighteous generation" the Revised Version (British and American) "grievous" etc.).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.