רָעַד
râʻad · H7460 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to tremble
Process by which objects shake
ExamplesEzra 10:9 So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sat in the public square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and the heavy rain.
Psalm 104:32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
Daniel 10:11 And he said to me, “Daniel, you who are treasured, understand the words that I am about to tell you and stand at your place, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- חָרַד chârad · H2729 · to shake, to quake, to tremble > to be startled
- Hebrew verb for trembling with fear or anxiety, closely overlapping in meaning with רָעַד but from a distinct root; both describe involuntary physical response to fear or divine presence.
- רָגַז râgaz · H7264 · to tremble, to shake, to quake
- Hebrew verb for trembling, quaking, or being agitated, used of both persons and the earth; semantically very close to רָעַד with similar contexts of fear or disturbance.
- פָּחַד pâchad · H6342 · to tremble, to cause to tremble
- Hebrew verb expressing fear with physical manifestation of trembling; overlaps with רָעַד in contexts where trembling accompanies fear or dread.
In the other Testament 2 words
- τρέμω trémō · G5141 · to tremble, trembling, to quiver
- Greek verb for trembling with fear or alarm, the standard LXX rendering of רָעַד and its semantic equivalent in the New Testament.
- σείω seíō · G4579 · to shake, to stir up, to cause an uproar
- Greek verb for shaking or trembling, often used of physical trembling or earthquake, also appears in LXX contexts where Hebrew roots for trembling occur.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Ezra 10:9 describes the assembled people "trembling because of this matter and the heavy rain," Psalm 104:32 describes the earth as He "touches the mountains, and they smoke" and trembles at His look, and Daniel 10:11 records "I stood up trembling," all directly attesting the sense of shaking.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7460. raad [רָעַד] verb tremble, quake (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il shake (rare), רְעָדָה a…
[רָעַד] verb tremble, quake (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il shake (rare), רְעָדָה a trembling, shaking; Arabic thunder (said of sky), VIII. tremble, quiver; Ethiopic tremble; Jewish-Aramaic רְעַד tremble, shake); —
Qal Imperfect3feminine singular וַתִּרְעָ֑ד Psa 104:32 and it (the earth) trembleth at the gaze of ׳י, in theoph.
Hiph`il Participle מַרְעִיד עָמַדְתִּי Dan 10:11 I stood trembling; plural מַרְעִדִים Ezr 10:9, with יָשַׁב.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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