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# רַעַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7461

**trembling** — 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

trembling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7461/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַ֫עַד: n.m. trembling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7461/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. trembling;—יִרְאָה וָר׳ יָבֹא בִי ψ 55:6; יֹאחֲזֵמוֹ רָ֑עַד Ex 15:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: trembling (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 55:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.6/#tree)

יִרְאָ֣ה וָ֭רַעַד יָ֣בֹא בִ֑י וַ֝תְּכַסֵּ֗נִי פַּלָּצֽוּת׃

*Word for word:* fear and trembling it.comes on me and it has.covered.me shuddering

*JPS 1917:* Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

[Exodus 15:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.15/#tree)

אָ֤ז נִבְהֲלוּ֙ אַלּוּפֵ֣י אֱד֔וֹם אֵילֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב יֹֽאחֲזֵ֖מוֹ רָ֑עַד נָמֹ֕גוּ כֹּ֖ל יֹשְׁבֵ֥י כְנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* then they.are.terrified the.chiefs of.Edom the.leaders of.Moab it has.seized.them trembling they.have.melted.away all the.inhabitants of.Canaan

*JPS 1917:* Then were the chiefs of Edom affrighted; the mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7461.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7461/): 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).