Word

תַּרְעֵלָה

tarʻêlâh · H8653 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. reeling, staggering

    Action by which humans move about in an unsteady way like someone who is drunk; only used figuratively to denote hardship

    Examples

    Psalm 60:3 You have made Your people experience hardship; You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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
פַּלָּצוּת pallâtsûwth · H6427 · trembling
Both lexemes denote emotional/physical states involving trembling or shaking caused by fear/horror/astonishment, genuine overlapping senses suitable for near-synonymy. Both are rare (3-4 occurrences each).
חֲרָדָה chărâdâh · H2731 · trembling, shock, terror
Both words are nouns denoting trembling or quaking as a physical or emotional state, in particular fear-induced shaking.
רְתֵת rᵉthêth · H7578 · trembling
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 1 entry
Unsteady002001001067
This noun denotes a staggering brought on by judgment, as in Isaiah 51:17's picture of Jerusalem having drunk the cup of the LORD's anger, the chalice of staggering.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8653. tarelah תַּרְעֵלָה noun feminine reeling (compare רֵ֫עַל); — הַתּ ׳כּוֺס Isa…
H8653. tarelah
תַּרְעֵלָה noun feminine reeling (compare רֵ֫עַל); — הַתּ ׳כּוֺס Isa 51:17, Isa 51:22; תּ ׳יַיִן Psa 60:5 drink reeling as wine.

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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