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Reeling

רַ֫עַלStrong’s H7478

raal (ra-al)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

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

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.”
Zechariah 12:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Reeling
How it's translated
  • reeling 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Zechariah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    רַ֫עַל raal · reeling

    reeling

    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.]

    1. 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.
    2. A kind of dance.
    All definitions and other forms of “reel”

      REEL, verb transitive

      To gather yarn from the spindle.

        REEL, verb intransitive

        1. “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.