charad · tremble

What it means

charad (חָרַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tremble”.

Shudder with fear or alarm; also hurry anxiously.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To shudder with fear, with surprise or before God's presence.
2. To put fear in others until they flee or lose heart.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• trembled ×9
• tremble ×8
• make them afraid ×5
• frighten them away ×2
• make him afraid ×2
• make you afraid ×2
• terrify ×2
• trembles ×2
• will come trembling ×2
• came trembling ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled with a great trembling, exceedingly, and said, “Who then was he who hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of all before you came, and I blessed him? Indeed, he will be blessed.”

• Genesis 42:28

  He said to his brothers, “My silver has been returned; and look, it is even in my bag!” Their hearts failed, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that Elohim has done to us?”

• Exodus 19:16

  On the third day, when morning came, there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a horn, very loud; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

• Exodus 19:18

  Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because YHWH had come down upon it in fire; and its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.

• Leviticus 26:6

  And I will give peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and the sword will not pass through your land.

• Deuteronomy 28:26

  And your carcass will be food for all the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

• Judges 8:12

  Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw into terror the whole camp.

• Ruth 3:8

  And it happened at midnight that the man trembled and turned over, and look, a woman was lying at his feet.

• 1 Samuel 13:7

  And some Hebrews crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people trembled after him.

• 1 Samuel 14:15

  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.

• 1 Samuel 16:4

  Samuel did what YHWH had spoken and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city trembled to meet him, and one said, “Is your coming in peace?”

• 1 Samuel 21:1

  David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”

• 1 Samuel 28:5

  When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

• 2 Samuel 17:2

  I will come upon him while he is weary and weak of hands, and I will make him tremble, and all the people who are with him will flee, and I will strike the king alone.

• 1 Kings 1:49

  And all the guests of Adonijah trembled and rose up and went each on his way.

• 2 Kings 4:13

  He said to him, “Say, please, to her, ‘Look, you have taken trouble for us with all this trouble. What is to be done for you? Is there a matter to speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She said, “I live among my own people.”

• Job 11:19

  You will stretch out with none to make you afraid, and many will entreat your favor.

• Job 37:1

  At this also my heart trembles and leaps from its place.

• Isaiah 10:29

  They have crossed the pass; “Geba is a lodging for us”; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

• Isaiah 17:2

  The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be for flocks, and they will lie down with no one to make them afraid.

• Isaiah 19:16

  On that day Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be in dread before the waving of the hand of YHWH Tsevaot which he is waving over it.

• Isaiah 32:11

  Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you confident ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and gird yourselves on your hips.

• Isaiah 41:5

  The coastlands saw and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they drew near and came.

• Jeremiah 7:33

  And the corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.

• Jeremiah 30:10

  And you, do not fear, my servant Jacob, declares YHWH, and do not be dismayed, Israel; for look, I am saving you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity; and Jacob will return and be quiet and at ease, and there will be no one to make him afraid.

• Jeremiah 46:27

  But you, do not fear, my servant Jacob, and do not be dismayed, Israel; for look, I am saving you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity; and Jacob will return, and be quiet and at ease, and there will be no one to make him afraid.

• Ezekiel 26:16

  And all the chiefs of the sea will come down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments; with tremblings they will clothe themselves; on the ground they will sit, and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.

• Ezekiel 26:18

  Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are in the sea are dismayed at your departure.’

• Ezekiel 30:9

  On that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to terrify Cush that is secure; and there will be shuddering among them on the day of Egypt; for, look, it is coming.

• Ezekiel 32:10

  And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will bristle at you with horror when I brandish my sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, each for his own soul, on the day of your fall.

• Ezekiel 34:28

  And they will no longer be booty for the nations, and the animals of the earth will not devour them; and they will live securely, and there will be no one to make them afraid.

• Ezekiel 39:26

  And they will bear their shame and all their infidelity with which they were unfaithful to me, when they live on their own ground securely, and no one makes them afraid,

• Hosea 11:10

  After YHWH they will walk; like a lion he will roar; when he roars, children will come trembling from the west.

• Hosea 11:11

  They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt, and like a dove from the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses, declares YHWH.

• Amos 3:6

  If a horn is blown in a city, will the people not tremble? If there is evil in a city, has YHWH not done it?

• Micah 4:4

  And they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one to make them afraid, for the mouth of YHWH Tsevaot has spoken.

• Nahum 2:11

  Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion walked, the lioness, there the lion’s cub, and there was no one to make them afraid?

• Zephaniah 3:13

  The remnant of Israel will not do injustice nor speak lies, nor will there be found in their mouth a tongue of deceit; for they will graze and lie down, and there will be no one to make them afraid.”

• Zechariah 1:21

  And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, saying, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one lifted up his head; and these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who lift up a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”