To tremble
רָעַדStrong’s H7460raad (ra-ad)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raad is the Hebrew word usually translated “trembling” and “it trembled”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.”
Meaning
- To tremble, quake(Qal) · (Hiphil) trembling (participle)
How it's translated
- trembling 2
- and it trembled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Psalms 1
- Daniel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 10:9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
- Psalms 104:32He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Hebrew dictionary
רָעַד raad · to tremble
1) to tremble, quake 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tremble 1a2) (earth)quake 1b) (Hiphil) trembling (participle)
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.