And there wasוַתְּהִיtremblingחֲרָדָהin the camp,בַמַּחֲנֶהin the field,בַשָּׂדֶהand among allוּבְכָלthe people;הָעָםthe postהַמַּצָּבand the destroyersוְהַמַּשְׁחִיתtrembled,חָרְדוּthey too;גַּם הֵמָּהthe earthהָאָרֶץquaked,וַתִּרְגַּזand it becameוַתְּהִי לְa tremblingחֶרְדַּתof Elohim.אֱלֹהִים
1 Samuel 14:15
Study it in the app“And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the post and the destroyers trembled, they too; the earth quaked, and it became a trembling of Elohim.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Samuel 14:15, word by word
- And there wasתְּהִיtehi
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “tehi” appears- tremblingחֲרָדָהcharada
trembling
A shaking that seizes someone who is afraid.
Where else “charada” appears- in the campמַּחֲנֶהmachane
camp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appears- in the fieldשָּׂדֶהsade
field
The open country: "the beasts of the field".
Where else “sade” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- the postמַּצָּבmatsav
garrison
A post of soldiers watching a pass or place.
Where else “matsav” appears- and the destroyersמַּשְׁחִיתmashchit
destroy
To ruin something completely, until it no longer exists or no longer serves.
Where else “mashchit” appears- trembledחָרְדוּchardu
tremble
To shudder with fear, with surprise or before God's presence.
Where else “chardu” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- quakedתִּרְגַּזtirgaz
tremble
For the body or the earth to shake from fear, pain or a very great force.
Where else “tirgaz” appears- of Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appears
The context
14The first blow that Jonathan and the one who carried his weapons struck was about twenty men, within about half a furrow of a yoke of field.
15 · This verse (above)
16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and look, the multitude was melting away and going this way and that.