חֲרָדָה
chărâdâh · khar-aw-daw'
fear, anxiety
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H2730 (חָרֵד);
fear, anxiety
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: care, [idiom] exceedingly, fear, quaking, trembling.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
To separate and protect of the head, the highest of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֲרָדָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- exceedingly1 · 11%
- and there was trembling1 · 11%
- trembling1 · 11%
- for us with all this care1 · 11%
- the fear1 · 11%
- into fear1 · 11%
- of trembling1 · 11%
- themselves with trembling1 · 11%
- quaking1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.