As attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Leviticus 26:28; Job 20:23; Isaiah 63:3; Jeremiah 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zechariah 8:2).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A thief.

2. (n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

3. (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.

4. (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

5. (n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.

6. (n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.