STRONGS NUMBER H6343


Word Summary
pachad: dread
Original Word: פַחַד
Transliteration: pachad
Phonetic Spelling: (pakh'-ad)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dread
Meaning: a, alarm
Strong's Concordance
dreadful, fear, thing great fear terror

From pachad; a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling) -- dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.

see HEBREW pachad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6343. pachad

I. מַּ֫חַד49 noun masculine1 Samuel 11:7 dread; — ׳פ‎ absolute Genesis 31:42 +, construct 1 Samuel 11:7 +, suffix מַּחְדְּךָDeuteronomy 2:25; Psalm 119:120, מַּחְדּוֺJob 13:11; 1 Chronicles 14:17, etc.; plural מְּחָדִיםJob 15:21: —

1 dread, ׳י׳פ‎, i.e. before ׳י‎, often (not always) terrifying, unfitting for action, Isaiah 2:10, 19, 21; 1 Samuel 11:7; 2 Chronicles 14:13; 17:10, so ׳פ אֱהִֹים20:29, with suffix Job 13:11; Psalm 119:120 trembleth for dread of thee; with Genitive object Israel, Deuteronomy 2:25 ("" יִרְאָה‎), 11:25 ("" מוֺרָא‎), Psalm 105:38; Esther 8:17; 9:2, ׳פ אוֺיֵבPsalm 64:2, of individual 1 Chronicles 14:17; Esther 9:3; with Genitive object of thing Proverbs 1:33; absolute, in General, Exodus 15:16 (song; "" אֵימָ֫תָה‎), Job 4:14 ("" רְעָדָה‎), Jeremiah 30:5 ("" חֲרָדָה קוֺל‎) +; as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with מָּחַדPsalm 14:5 + (see מָּחַד‎); c. Genitive subject Proverbs 1:26-27, (both "" אֵיד‎) Deuteronomy 28:67.

2 = object of dread Psalm 31:12; 36:2, ׳פ אֵלַיJob 31:23; מָּחַדְתִּי מַּחַד3:25; הַמַּחַד מִקּוֺלIsaiah 24:18 sound of the disaster, for הַמּ ׳מִמְּנֵי‎ of original Jeremiah 48:44, but מְּחָדִים קוֺלJob 15:21 = a sound of terrors; מִּתְאֹם ׳פ22:10; Proverbs 3:25.

3 as designation of deity ׳פ יִצְחָקGenesis 31:42 ("" אַבְרָהָם אֱהֵֹי‎), so 31:53 ("" id.; both E).