Reeling
תַּרְעֵלָהStrong’s H8653tarelah (tar-e-lah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tarelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “staggering”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.”
Meaning
- Reeling, staggering
How it's translated
- staggering 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
- Isaiah 51:22Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Hebrew dictionary
תַּרְעֵלָה tarelah · reeling
reeling, staggering
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.]
- 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.
- A kind of dance.
All definitions and other forms of “reel”
REEL, verb transitive
To gather yarn from the spindle.
REEL, verb intransitive
- “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.