Bible Dictionary
HORROR
Horror is intense fear, dread, or trembling. Scripture uses it for overwhelming darkness, terror, indignation, and the shuddering produced by calamity or judgment.
Biblical Usage
In Genesis 15:12, “horror” describes a great darkness. The word is associated elsewhere with trembling, fearfulness, and hot indignation. In 2 Maccabees 3:17, it describes a man overcome by shuddering.