Hebrew verb · H2729
חָרַד
charadkhaw-rad'
to tremble
39 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chârad
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2729is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 20 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2729
to shudder with terror; hence, to fear; also to hasten (with anxiety)
The King James renders it: be (make) afraid, be careful, discomfit, fray (away), quake, tremble.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
charad is rendered "to tremble". It stands 39 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.
- Six of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:33Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
Genesis 27:33וַיֶּחֱרַ֨ד
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- terrifies7
- disturbs4
- and he trembled3
- and it trembled3
- and they trembled3
- and they will tremble2
- they tremble2
- they trembled2
- they will tremble2
- and I will terrify1
- and it will tremble1
- and they may tremble1
and 8 more, 39 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 39, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃7
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד4
- מַחֲרִ֑יד3
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֨ד2
- יֶחֱרָ֑דוּ2
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃ ס2
- הֶחֱרִֽיד׃1
- וְהַֽחֲרַדְתִּ֣י1
- וְחָרַ֣ד׀1
- וְחָֽרְדוּ֙1
- וְחָרְד֤וּ1
- וְיֶחֶרְד֥וּ1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular12HVhrmsa
- Hc/Vqw3ms6Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
- Hc/Vqw3mp3Hc/Vqw3mp
- Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vhcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
Genesis
two uses
Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֨דvaiyecheradHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he trembled
“My silver has been returned!” he said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
- וַיֶּֽחֶרְד֞וּvaiyecherduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they trembled
Exodus
two uses
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֥דvaiyecheradHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it trembled
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֥דvaiyecheradHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it trembled
Leviticus
one use
And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
- מַחֲרִ֑ידmacharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
Deuteronomy
one use
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: disturbs
Judges
one use
When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army.
- הֶחֱרִֽיד׃hecheridverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he routed
Ruth
one use
At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֥דvaiyecheradHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he trembled
1 Samuel
five uses
Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul, however, remained at Gilgal, and all his troops were quaking in fear.
- חָרְד֥וּchareduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they trembled
Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.
- חָרְד֖וּchareduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they trembled
So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
- וַיֶּחֶרְד֞וּvaiyecherduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they trembled
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֨דvaiyecheradHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he trembled
When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid and trembled violently.
- וַיֶּחֱרַ֥דvaiyecheradHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it trembled
2 Samuel
one use
I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
- וְהַֽחֲרַדְתִּ֣יvehacharadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will terrify
1 Kings
one use
At this, all the guests of Adonijah arose in terror and scattered.
- וַיֶּֽחֶרְדוּ֙vaiyecherduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they trembled
2 Kings
one use
and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
- חָרַ֣דְתְּ׀charadtverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have taken care
Job
two uses
You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.
- מַחֲרִ֑ידmacharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: disturbs
“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
- יֶחֱרַ֣דyecheradverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it trembles
Isaiah
five uses
They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
- חָֽרְדָה֙charedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has trembled
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
- וְחָרַ֣ד׀vecharadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will tremble
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- חִרְדוּ֙chirduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tremble
The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.
- יֶחֱרָ֑דוּyecheraduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they tremble
Jeremiah
three uses
The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃ סmacharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
Ezekiel
six uses
All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you.
- וְחָֽרְדוּ֙vechareduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will tremble
Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’
- יֶחְרְד֣וּyechreduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will tremble
On that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom. For it is indeed coming.
- לְהַחֲרִ֖ידlehacharidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make tremble
I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
- וְחָרְד֤וּvechareduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will tremble
They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: disturbs
Hosea
two uses
They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
- וְיֶחֶרְד֥וּveyecherduHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may tremble
They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.
- יֶחֶרְד֤וּyecherduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will tremble
Amos
one use
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
- יֶחֱרָ֑דוּyecheraduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they tremble
Micah
one use
And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
- מַחֲרִ֑ידmacharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrifies
Nahum
one use
Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃macharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: disturbed
Zephaniah
one use
The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
- מַחֲרִֽיד׃ סmacharidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: disturbs
Zechariah
one use
“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
- לְהַחֲרִ֣ידlehacharidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to terrify
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
