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# חֲרָדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2731

**trembling** — used 9 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

trembling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2731/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲרָדָה: n.f. trembling, fear, anxiety [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2731/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. trembling, fear, anxiety—חֲרָדָה Gn 27:33 + 5 times + Ez 38:21 (read for הָרַי, B Co cf. Dr 1 S 14:15); cstr. חֶרְדַּת 1 S 14:15 Pr 29:25 (v. LagBN 113); pl. חֲרָדוֹת Ez 26:16;— trembling, quaking (of terror ascribed to supernat. cause) 1 S 14:15(×2) (hence ח׳ אלהים v. Dr; ‖ וַתִּרְגַּז־הארץ) cf. Ez 38:21 (v. supr.); Dn 10:7; קול ח׳ Je 30:5 voice of trembling; sq. gen. obj. ח׳ אָדָם Pr 29:25 trembling before man; opp. pleasure Is 21:4; tremblings (pl.) Ez 26:16 under fig. of garment (ח׳ ילבשׁו), of effect on coast-princes of fall of Tyre. anxious care 2 K 4:13, acc. cogn. c. חָרַד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: trembling (6); care (1); of trembling (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 29:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.25/#tree)

חֶרְדַּ֣ת אָ֭דָם יִתֵּ֣ן מוֹקֵ֑שׁ וּבוֹטֵ֖חַ בַּיהוָ֣ה יְשֻׂגָּֽב׃

*Word for word:* trembling of.a.person it.makes a.snare and \[one.who\].trusts in Yahweh he.will.be.set.on.high

*JPS 1917:* The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be set up on high.

[Jeremiah 30:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.30.5/#tree)

כִּי־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה ק֥וֹל חֲרָדָ֖ה שָׁמָ֑עְנוּ פַּ֖חַד וְאֵ֥ין שָׁלֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh a.voice of.trembling we.have.heard dread and there.\[is\].not peace

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2731.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2731/): 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).