Everyday words
Terror
Start with Genesis 15:12, where the Bible uses the word terror in a real sentence: “When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:12
“When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.”
2. Genesis 35:5
“They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.”
3. Exodus 15:16
“Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone— until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.”
4. Exodus 23:27
“I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.”
5. Leviticus 26:16
“I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.”
6. Deuteronomy 26:8
“Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;”
7. Deuteronomy 32:25
“Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.”
8. Job 6:21
“For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 15:12
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whenthesunwasgoingdown,adeeponAbram.Nowterrorandgreatfellonhim.