תַּרְעֵלָה

tarela · staggering

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8653 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

tarela (תַּרְעֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “staggering”.

Reeling like a drunkard. "Wine of staggering": a drink that makes one reel.

How to say it

ta·re·la

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. Dizziness, lurching as a drunkard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • reeling ×2
  • staggering ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Psalms 60:3

    You have made your people see hard things; you have given us to drink wine of staggering.

  • Isaiah 51:17

    Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, Jerusalem, who drank from the hand of YHWH the cup of his fury; the goblet of the cup of reeling you drank, you drained.

  • Isaiah 51:22

    thus says your Lord YHWH, and your Elohim, who defends the cause of his people: “Look, I have taken from your hand the cup of reeling, the goblet of the cup of my fury; you will not drink it ever again.