Definition

fearful, i.e. powerful or tyrannical

Etymology

from H6206 (עָרַץ);

Where the KJV renders it

• mighty
• oppressor
• in great power
• strong
• terrible
• violent

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.