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Tottering

פִּיקStrong’s H6375

piq

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Piq is the Hebrew word usually translated “tottering”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.”
Nahum 2:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. Tottering, staggering, stagger, stumble
How it's translated
  • and tottering 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Nahum 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    פִּיק piq · tottering

    tottering, staggering, stagger, stumble

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “tottering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    TOT'TERING, participle present

    tense Shaking, as threatening a fall; vacillating; reeling; inclining.

      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.