Limitless Word
עָרִיץʻârîyts/aw-reets'/
HebrewH618420 occurrences (KJV)

fearful, i.e. powerful or tyrannical

KJV renders it: mighty, oppressor, in great power, strong, terrible, violent.

Where it appears

  • Job 6:23or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
  • Job 15:20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
  • Job 27:13“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
  • Ps 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
  • Ps 54:3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
  • Ps 86:14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
  • Prov 11:16A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.
  • Isa 13:11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
  • Isa 25:3Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
  • Isa 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
  • Isa 25:5As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
  • Isa 29:5But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
  • Isa 29:20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —
  • Isa 49:25But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
  • Jer 15:21“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”
  • Jer 20:11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
  • Ezek 28:7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
  • Ezek 30:11He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
  • Ezek 31:12Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
  • Ezek 32:12By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; they are all the ruthless of the nations: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.