To crawl
זָחַלStrong’s H2119zachal (za-chal)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zachal is the Hebrew word usually translated “crawl of”, “was anxious” and “like crawl of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”
Meaning
- To shrink back, crawl away(Qal) crawling, creeping (participle) (meton)
- To fear(P'al) · (Pael) to cause to be afraid, make afraid
How it's translated
- crawl of 1
- i was anxious 1
- like crawl of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
- Micah 7:17They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Hebrew dictionary
זָחַל zachal · to crawl
1) to shrink back, crawl away 1a) (Qal) crawling, creeping (participle) (meton)
דְּחַל dechal · to fear
1) to fear 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to fear 1a2) terrible (pass participle) 1b) (Pael) to cause to be afraid, make afraid
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crawl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRAWL, verb intransitive
- To creep; to move slowly by thrusting or drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; or to move slowly on the hands and knees or feet, as a human being.
- To move or walk weakly, slowly, or timorously.
- To creep; to advance slowly and slyly; to insinuate ones self; as, to crawl into favor. [This use is vulgar.]
- To move about; to move in any direction; used in contempt.
All definitions and other forms of “crawl”
- To have the sensation of insects creeping about the body; as, the flesh crawls.
CRAWL, noun
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the sea coast for containing fish.
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.