H2119 זחל - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Number


זחל
zâchal
zaw-khal'
A primitive root; to crawl; by implication to fear

KJV Usage: be afraid, serpent, worm.


Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions

BDB2334
BDB2336
BDB9439

זחל

1. to shrink back, crawl away
a. (Qal) crawling, creeping (participle) (meton)
2. to fear, be afraid
Origin: a primitive root
TWOT: 545
Parts of Speech: Verb

View how H2119 זחל is used in the Bible

3 occurrences of H2119 זחל

Deuteronomy 32:24 of serpents
Job 32:6 therefore I was afraid,
Micah 7:17 like worms

Distinct usage

1 therefore I was afraid,
1 like worms
1 of serpents

Corresponding Greek Words

zachal G2270 hesuchazo
zachal G4951 suro


Related words

H2119

H1763 דּחל de chal
דּחל
de chal
deh-khal'
(Chaldee); corresponding to H2119; to slink, that is, (by implication) to fear, or (causatively) be formidable

KJV Usage: make afraid, dreadful, fear, terrible.


H2120 זחלת zôcheleth
זחלת
zôcheleth
zo-kheh'-leth
Feminine active participle of H2119; crawling (that is, serpent); Zocheleth, a boundary stone in Palestine

KJV Usage: Zoheleth.