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# זָלַל

Biblical Hebrew

**shake** — used 2 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

shake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָלַל: vb. shake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shake (Arabic زَلَّ slip, زَلْزَلَ agitate, shake; تَزَلْزَلَ be agitated, quake, especially of earth-quake)— Pf. נָזֹ֫לּוּ shake, quake Is 63:19 of mts. at י׳’s presence (Ges De Che Di Du; 𝔊 𝔙 as if from נזל flow down); so 64:2 (but here prob. not original Che Di Du); read נָזֹלּוּ likewise Ju 5:5 (𝔊 Thes Stu Be Bla MV SS; MT נָֽזְלוּ, from נזל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they shook (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 64:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.2/#tree)

בַּעֲשׂוֹתְךָ֥ נוֹרָא֖וֹת לֹ֣א נְקַוֶּ֑ה יָרַ֕דְתָּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ הָרִ֥ים נָזֹֽלּוּ׃

*Word for word:* when did you awesome.\[deeds\] \[which\].not we.were.waiting.for you.came.down from before you mountains they.shook

*JPS 1917:* When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for — Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence! —

[Isaiah 63:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.19/#tree)

הָיִ֗ינוּ מֵֽעוֹלָם֙ לֹֽא־מָשַׁ֣לְתָּ בָּ֔ם לֹֽא־נִקְרָ֥א שִׁמְךָ֖ עֲלֵיהֶ֑םלוּא־קָרַ֤עְתָּ שָׁמַ֙יִם֙ יָרַ֔דְתָּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ הָרִ֥ים נָזֹֽלּוּ׃

*Word for word:* we.have.been from long.ago \[those.whom\].not you.ruled over them \[those.whom\].not it.was.called name your on them if you.tore \[the\].heavens you.came.down from before you mountains they.shook

*JPS 1917:* We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name. Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/): 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).