Quick Definition
to tremble
Strong's Definition
to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: be affrighted (afraid, dread, feared, terrified), break, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, shake terribly.
TWOT Reference: 1702
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָרַץ (a.rats) — to tremble. 1) to tremble, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, break, be terrified, cause to tremble 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cause to tremble, terrify 1b2) to tremble, feel dread 1b) (Niphal) to be awesome, be terrible 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to regard or treat with awe, regard or treat as awful 1c2) to inspire with awe, terrify
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַעֲרָצָה · עָרוּץ · עָרִיץ
Afraid | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ חפז · חתת · ירא · קדשׁ · רכך
to be terrified = process by which humans experience an extreme fear
DEU 1:29 · DEU 7:21 · DEU 20:3 · DEU 31:6 · JOS 1:9 · JOB 31:34 · ISA 8:12 · ISA 8:13 · ISA 29:23
Afraid | verb qal
to terrify, to cause terror = causative process by which humans or deities inspire an extreme fear in (other) humans
Afraid | verb nif ptc.pass
terrible, dreadful = state in which deities inspire an extreme fear in others
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָרַץ] vb. cause to tremble, tremble (in terror, or awe) Qal cause to tremble (i.e. strike with awe)
intrans. tremble, feel dread
Niph. terrible in the company of the holy ones
Hiph. regard, or treat, with awe, as awful
inspire with awe
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