חָרַדchârad
tremble, be terrified
Pronunciation: khaw-rad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2729
Meanings
Qal
1. tremble, quake (Exodus 19:18; Ezekiel 26:18; Isaiah 41:5)
2. tremble (1 Samuel 14:15; Ruth 3:8; Genesis 27:33)
3. be anxiously careful (2 Kings 4:13)
4. go or come trembling, with prepositions pregnantly = (1 Samuel 13:7; Genesis 42:28; 1 Samuel 16:4)
Hiph`il: drive in terror, rout, and none shall terrify, i.e. disturb the peace of those reposing (Judges 8:12; 2 Samuel 17:2; Leviticus 6:26)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 39 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 27:33 Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably and said, “Then who just served me wild game? I have already eaten it, and I blessed him just before you came. And yes, that blessing must stand!”
- Genesis 42:28 “Look!” he exclaimed to his brothers. “My money has been returned; it’s here in my sack!” Then their hearts sank. Trembling, they said to each other, “What has God done to us?”
- Exodus 19:16 On the morning of the third day, thunder roared and lightning flashed, and a dense cloud came down on the mountain. There was a long, loud blast from a ram’s horn, and all the people trembled.
- Exodus 19:18 All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.
- Leviticus 26:6 “I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.
- Deuteronomy 28:26 Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
See every passage
- Genesis 27:33, 42:28
- Exodus 19:16, 19:18
- Leviticus 26:6
- Deuteronomy 28:26
- Judges 8:12
- Ruth 3:8
- 1 Samuel 13:7, 14:15, 16:4, 21:1, 28:5
- 2 Samuel 17:2
- 1 Kings 1:49
- 2 Kings 4:13
- Job 11:19, 37:1
- Isaiah 10:29, 17:2, 19:16, 32:11, 41:5
- Jeremiah 7:33, 30:10, 46:27
- Ezekiel 26:16, 26:18, 30:9, 32:10, 34:28, 39:26
- Hosea 11:10, 11:11
- Amos 3:6
- Micah 4:4
- Nahum 2:11
- Zephaniah 3:13
- Zechariah 1:21
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).