To reel
פּוּקStrong’s H6328puq
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Puq is the Hebrew word usually translated “tottered” and “it will wobble”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.”
Meaning
- To reel, totter, stumble(Qal) to reel · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- they tottered 1
- it will wobble 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
פּוּק puq · to reel
1) to reel, totter, stumble 1a) (Qal) to reel 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to totter, wobble 1b2) to cause tottering
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “reel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REEL, noun
[See reel to stagger.]
- A frame or machine turning on an axis, and on which yarn is extended for winding, either into skeins, or from skeins on to spools and quills.
- A kind of dance.
All definitions and other forms of “reel”
REEL, verb transitive
To gather yarn from the spindle.
REEL, verb intransitive
- “They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man” Psalms 107:27
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.