Staggering
פּוּקָהStrong’s H6330puqah (pu-qah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Puqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “staggering”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.”
Meaning
- Tottering, staggering, stumblingof qualm of conscience (fig.)
How it's translated
- staggering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פּוּקָה puqah · staggering
1) tottering, staggering, stumbling 1a) of qualm of conscience (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “staggering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STAGGERING, participle present
tense Causing to reel, to waver or to doubt.
All definitions and other forms of “staggering”
STAGGERING, noun
- The act of reeling.
- The cause of staggering
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.