To quake
חָרַגStrong’s H2727charag (cha-rag)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Charag is the Hebrew word usually translated “may come trembling”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to shake from fear, tremble, quake
How it's translated
- and they may come trembling 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חָרַג charag · to quake
(Qal) to shake from fear, tremble, quake
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUAKE, verb intransitive
- To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Hebrews 12:21
- To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake Nahum 1:5
- To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.
All definitions and other forms of “quake”
QUAKE, verb transitive
To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.]
QUAKE, noun
A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.
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.