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title: חַתְחַתִּים — terror · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַתְחַתִּים (2849), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: terror. BDB 1906: terror. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַתְחַתִּים

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«חַתְחַתִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **terror** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2849 · **BDB:** חַתְחַת

### Glosses

terrors (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

terror [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2849/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

terror [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2849/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] terror, only pl. חַתְחַתִּים בַּדֶּרֶךְ Ec 12:5 terrors are in the way (‖ ירא).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַתְחַתִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2849/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/)

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גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* also from a.high.\[place\] people.will.be.afraid and terrors \[are\].in the way and it.will.bloom the.almond tree and it.will.drag.itself.along the grasshopper and it.will.fail the caper-berry (dm) \[is\].going (the) humankind to the.house its.perpetuity his and they.will.go.about in the street the mourners

*JPS 1917:* Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

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