Psalm 114

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs?

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
O mountainsהֶֽ֭הָרִיםHE-ha-rimH2022G
mountain: mount

הַר (har) : mount/hill hill, mountain, hill country, mount

you will skip aboutתִּרְקְד֣וּtir-ke-DUH7540
to skip about

רָקַד (ra.qad) 1) to skip about 1a) (Qal) to skip about 1b) (Piel) to dance, leap 1c) (Hiphil) to make to skip

like ramsכְאֵילִ֑יםkhe-'ei-LIMH0352A
ram

אַ֫יִל (a.yil) 1) ram 1a) ram (as food) 1b) ram (as sacrifice) 1c) ram (skin dyed red, for tabernacle)

O hillsגְּ֝בָע֗וֹתge-va-'otH1389I
hill

גִּבְעָה (giv.ah) 1) hill 1a) hill (lower than a mountain) 1b) as a place of illicit worship 1c) poetic for mountain 1d) used in place names

like young ones ofכִּבְנֵי־kiv-nei-H1121HNo entry
sheepצֹֽאן׃TzonH6629G
flock

צֹאן (tson) 1) small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks 1a) small cattle (usually of sheep and goats) 1b) of multitude (simile) 1c) of multitude (metaphor)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.