To shudder
פָּלַץStrong’s H6426palats (pa-lats)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Palats is the Hebrew word usually translated “tremble”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.”
Meaning
- (Hithpael) to shudder, tremble
How it's translated
- they tremble 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פָּלַץ palats · to shudder
(Hithpael) to shudder, tremble
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shudder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHUD'DER, verb intransitive
[This word contains the same elements as the Latin quatio.]
To quake; to tremble or shake with fear, horror or aversion; to shiver.
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SHUD'DER, noun
A tremor; a shaking with fear or horror.
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.