Quick Definition
to quiver
Strong's Definition
to reel, i.e. (figuratively) to brandish
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: terribly shake.
TWOT Reference: 2188
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
רָעַל (ra.al) — to quiver. 1) to quiver, shake, reel 1a) (Hophal) to be made to quiver or shake
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · רַעַל · רְעָלָה · תַּרְעֵלָה
Unsteady | verb nif
to reel, to stagger = action by which humans move about in an unsteady way ◄ like someone who is drunk; ≈ only used figuratively to denote hardship
Leap | verb hof
to prance meaning unsure; possibly: = causative action by which horses move with high, springy steps
1 HAB 2:16 RSV NJPS NRSV REB GNT "stagger" | MT HOTTP-C ESV "show your circumcision" NIV "be exposed" NJB "show your foreskin" = ערל 2 NAM 2:4 Reading the subject as פּרשִׁים "horses" instead of בּרושִׁים "cypresses"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[רָעַל] vb. quiver, shake, reel;—Hoph. Na 2:4 ref