Hebrew

To trouble

דָּלַחStrong’s H1804

dalach (da-lach)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dalach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will make turbid them” and “made turbid”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.”

Ezekiel 32:2 KJV

Meaning

To stir up, make turbid(Qal) to stir up, trouble, make turbid

How it's translated

it will make turbid them 2
and you made turbid 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Ezekiel 32:13I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

Hebrew dictionary

דָּלַח dalach · to trouble

1) to stir up, make turbid 1a) (Qal) to stir up, trouble, make turbid

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “trouble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TROUBLE, verb transitive

trub'l. [Latin turbo; turba, a crowd, and perhaps trova, a turn. The primary sense is to turn or to stir, to whirl about, as in Latin turbo, turbinis, a whirlwind. Hence the sense of agitation, disturbance.

To agitate; to disturb; to put into confused motion.“An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water” John 5:4
To disturb; to perplex.
To afflict; to grieve; to distress.“Those that trouble me, rejoice when I am moved” Psalms 13:4
To busy; to cause to be much engaged or anxious.“Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many things” Luke 10:41

All definitions and other forms of “trouble”

To tease; to vex; to molest.
To give occasion for labor to.
To sue for a debt.

TROUBLE, noun

trub'l. Disturbance of mind; agitation; commotion of spirits; perplexity; a word of very extensive application.

Affliction; calamity.“He shall deliver thee in six troubles” Job 5:19“Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles” Psalms 25:22
Molestation; inconvenience; annoyance.
Uneasiness; vexation.
That which gives disturbance, annoyance or vexation; that which afflicts.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.