רַעַל
raʻal · H7478 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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reeling, staggering
Action by which humans move about in an unsteady way like someone who is drunk; only used figuratively to denote hardship
ExamplesZechariah 12:2 “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes staggering to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סַףthreshold, basin 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 1 word
- רַעַשׁ raʻash · H7494 · earthquake, trembling, quaking
- רַעַל (raʻal, H7478) denotes trembling and רַעַשׁ (raʻash, H7494) denotes quaking, shaking or earthquake. Both denote physical instability or vibration.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unsteady002001001067
- The sole occurrence, Zechariah 12:2, describes Jerusalem as "a cup that causes staggering to all the peoples around," directly attesting the sense of unsteady reeling.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7478. raal רַ֫עַל noun [masculine] reeling; — only ׳סַףרֿ Zec 12:2 goblet of reeling…
רַ֫עַל noun [masculine] reeling; — only ׳סַףרֿ Zec 12:2 goblet of reeling (figurative of Jerusalem).
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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