To tremble
חָרַדStrong’s H2729charad (cha-rad)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charad is the Hebrew word usually translated “terrifies”, “disturbs” and “trembled”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.”
Meaning
- To tremble, quake, move about, be afraid, be startled, be terrified(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- terrifies 7
- disturbs 4
- and he trembled 3
- and they trembled 3
- and it trembled 3
- they trembled 2
- they tremble 2
- and they will tremble 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- 1 Samuel 5
- Isaiah 5
- Jeremiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 2
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:33And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
- Genesis 42:28And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
- Exodus 19:16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Leviticus 26:6And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
- Deuteronomy 28:26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
All 39 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָרַד charad · to tremble
1) to tremble, quake, move about, be afraid, be startled, be terrified 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tremble, quake (of a mountain) 1a2) to tremble (of people) 1a3) to be anxiously careful 1a4) to go or come trembling (with prep) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to tremble 1b2) to drive in terror, rout (an army)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tremble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TREM'BLE, verb intransitive
[Latin tremo.]
- To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder.
- To shake; to quiver; to totter.
- To quaver; to shake, as sound; as when we say, the voice trembles.
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.