be.ha.lah denotes an experience of alarm or calamity that disrupts life, labor, or time.

The occurrences portray a distressing condition or event: imposed alongside wasting disease and fever, associated with sudden terror and anguish, ending years abruptly, and excluded from the future labor and offspring described in Isaiah.

1. Alarm or calamity disrupting life · dominant

   In Leviticus 26:16, the singular noun occurs in the announced afflictions alongside wasting disease and fever; the APB renders the clause “I will appoint upon you dismay.” In Psalm 78:33, it is connected with years ending suddenly, while Jeremiah 15:8 uses the plural amid anguish and terror; Isaiah 65:23 contrasts it with labor and offspring that will not be brought forth under such a condition.

   Leviticus 26:16Psalm 78:33Jeremiah 15:8Isaiah 65:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “dismay” in Leviticus 26:16 and Isaiah 65:23, “sudden terror” in Psalm 78:33, and “terror” in Jeremiah 15:8. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.