Extreme fear; violent dread; fright; fear that agitates the body and mind. The sword without, and terror within. Deuteronomy 32:25. The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Job 6:4.

That which may excite dread; the cause of extreme fear. Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Romans 13:3. Those enormous terrors of the Nile.

In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors. Psalm 73:19.

The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14.

Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11.

Death is emphatically styled the king of terrors.