Horrible
King James Dictionary [1]
HOR'RIBLE, a. L. horribilis. See Horror. Exciting or tending to excite horror dreadful terrible shocking hideous as a horrible figure or sight a horrible story.
A dungeon horrible on all sides round.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
hor´i - b ' 50 ( שׁערוּר , sha‛ărūr , שׁערוּרי , sha‛ărūrı̄ ): In Jeremiah 5:30 sha‛ărūr , "vile," "horrible," is translated "horrible," "a wonderful and horrible thing" the Revised Version margin "astonishment and horror"; also Jeremiah 23:14; in Jeremiah 18:13; Hosea 6:10 it is sha‛ărūrı̄ ; in Psalm 11:6 we have zil‛āphāh , "heat," the Revised Version (British and American) "burning wind"; in Psalm 40:2 shā'ōn , "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 sā‛ar , "to shudder," "to be whirled away," in Jeremiah 2:12 , and of sa‛ar , "fear," "trembling," in Ezekiel 32:10; in Ezekiel 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 ( chalepós ) is the end of the unrighteous generation" the Revised Version (British and American) "grievous" etc.).
