Horror
Bible Usage:
- horror used 4 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 15:12
- Last Reference: Ezekiel 7:18
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
HOR'ROR, noun [Latin from horreo, to shake or shiver, or to set up the bristles, to be rough.]
1. A shaking, shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever. This ague is usually accompanied with a contraction of the skin into small wrinkles, giving it a kind of roughness.
2. An excessive degree of fear, or a painful emotion which makes a person tremble; terror; a shuddering with fear; but appropriately, terror or a sensation approaching it, accompanied with hatred or detestation. horror is often a passion compounded of fear and hatred or disgust. The recital of a bloody deed fills us with horror
A horror of great darkness fell on Abram. Genesis 15:12.
Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Psalms 119:53.
3. That which may excite horror or dread; gloom; dreariness.
And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
4. Dreadful thoughts.
5. Distressing scenes; as the horrors of war or famine.