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# זוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2111

**tremble** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tremble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2111/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זוּעַ: vb. tremble, quake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2111/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tremble, quake (Aramaic (incl. Biblical Aramaic) id., ܙܳܥ; cf. also Arabic زَاع impel, زَعْزَعَ move, agitate, shake (on these v. NöZMG 1886, 725), Assyrian zû, storm-wind (= Aramaic זוֹעָא) ZimBP 94);— (late) Pf. 3 ms. זָע Est 5:9; Impf. 3 mpl. c. rel. שֶׁיָּזֻעוּ Ec 12:3;—tremble, quake, in presence of powerful superior Est 5:9 (sq. מִמֶּנּוּ); said of שֹׁמְרֵי הַבַּיִת in descr. of infirm old man Ec 12:3. Pt. sf. מְזַעְזְעֶיךָ Hb 2:7; causat. and intens. they that shall violently shake thee, fig. of foes of Babylon, instruments of Yahweh’s judgment.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[those (1); he trembled (1); they will tremble (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 2:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.7/#tree)

הֲל֣וֹא פֶ֗תַע יָק֙וּמוּ֙ נֹשְׁכֶ֔יךָ וְיִקְצ֖וּ מְזַעְזְעֶ֑יךָ וְהָיִ֥יתָ לִמְשִׁסּ֖וֹת לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not suddenness will.they.arise \[those who\].pay.interest.to.you and will.they.awake? \[those who.will\].make.you.tremble and you.will.become (into) plunder(s) for them

*JPS 1917:* Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, and awake that shall violently shake thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

[Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.3/#tree)

בַּיּ֗וֹם שֶׁיָּזֻ֙עוּ֙ שֹׁמְרֵ֣י הַבַּ֔יִת וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הֶחָ֑יִל וּבָטְל֤וּ הַטֹּֽחֲנוֹת֙ כִּ֣י מִעֵ֔טוּ וְחָשְׁכ֥וּ הָרֹא֖וֹת בָּאֲרֻבּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* in the day when they.will.tremble \[those.who\].keep (of).the house and they.will.bend.themselves the.people of.(the) strength and they.will.cease the.\[female\] grinders (dm) they.have.become.few and they.will.grow.dim the.\[women who\].look in the windows

*JPS 1917:* In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out shall be darkened in the windows,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2111.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2111/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).