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title: רָעַד — tremble · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָעַד (7460), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: tremble. BDB 1906: vb. tremble, quake. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָעַד

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«רָעַד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tremble** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 7460 · **BDB:** רָעַד

### Glosses

trembling (2); it.trembled (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tremble [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7460/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. tremble, quake [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7460/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tremble, quake (NH id., Hiph. shake (rare), רְעָדָה a trembling, shaking; Arabic رَعَدَ thunder (said of sky), viii. tremble, quiver; Ethiopic ርዕደ tremble; J.Aram רְעַב tremble, shake);— Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּרְעָ֑ד ψ 104:32 and it (the earth) trembleth at the gaze of י׳, in theoph Pt. עָמַדְתִּי מַרְעִיד Dn 10:11 I stood trembling; Pl. מַרְעִידִים Ezr 10:9, c. יָשַׁב.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָעַד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7460/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 104:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.32/)

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הַמַּבִּ֣יט לָ֭אָרֶץ וַתִּרְעָ֑ד יִגַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[who\] looks to the earth and it.trembled he.touches (in) the mountains and they.smoke

*JPS 1917:* Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

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[Ezra 10:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.9/)

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וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ כָל־אַנְשֵֽׁי־יְהוּדָה֩ וּבִנְיָמִ֨ן ׀ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם לִשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת הַיָּמִ֗ים ה֛וּא חֹ֥דֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁיעִ֖י בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים בַּחֹ֑דֶשׁ וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ כָל־הָעָ֗ם בִּרְחוֹב֙ בֵּ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מַרְעִידִ֥ים עַל־הַדָּבָ֖ר וּמֵהַגְּשָׁמִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.assembled all the.people of.Judah and Benjamin Jerusalem to the.three the days it \[was.the\].month (the) ninth on.\[day\] twenty in the month and they.sat all the people in the.open.place of.the.house of.(the) God trembling on the matter and from the rains

*JPS 1917:* Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

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