Perhaps from G5465 through the idea of reducing the strength; {difficult} that {is} {dangerous} or (by implication) furious: - {fierce} perilous.
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Act 7:4Then came he out of the land of the ChaldaeansG5466, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.