רְתֵת
rᵉthêth · H7578 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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trembling
State in which humans are trembling with fear
ExamplesHosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he incurred guilt and died.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 5 words
- רׇגְזָה rogzâh · H7269 · trembling
- Both denote trembling, whether physical or emotional.
- רַעַשׁ raʻash · H7494 · earthquake, trembling, quaking
- Both words describe physical instability or shaking: רַעַשׁ denotes earthquake, quaking and shaking, and רְתֵת denotes trembling.
- פַּלָּצוּת pallâtsûwth · H6427 · trembling
- Both denote trembling and fear, covering physical unsteadiness and emotional dread, and can substitute for each other in context.
- רַעַד raʻad · H7461 · trembling
- Both are nouns denoting trembling.
- תַּרְעֵלָה tarʻêlâh · H8653 · reeling, staggering
- Both lexemes denote states of physical trembling or unsteadiness, with רְתֵת (rᵉthêth, H7578) also carrying an "Afraid" domain. This is genuine same-language near-synonymy—two distinct words describing overlapping physical/emotional trembling phenomena.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unsteady002001001067
- This word denotes trembling, the involuntary shaking or unsteady physical motion of a body overcome by fear or distress; none of the sampled citations for this lexeme show the word's sense clearly in the excerpt given, so this rests on the word's own gloss rather than a directly quoted occurrence.
- Afraid002001002001
- Trembling of this kind is characteristically the bodily expression of fear; as with the domain above, none of the sampled citations clearly display this sense in the excerpt given, so this rests on the word's own gloss.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7578. retheth רְתֵת noun [masculine] trembling (on form Lag BN 176 Ba§ 7 b); — ׳ר Hos…
רְתֵת noun [masculine] trembling (on form Lag BN 176 Ba§ 7 b); — ׳ר Hos 13:1 (si versa l.) when Ephraim spoke trembling (AV Che and others) Ew and others spoke terror; Hi Ke Rv spoke, there was trembling; text dubious (see Now).
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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