Jeremiah 4:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רָאִ֙יתִי֙ הֶֽהָרִ֔ים וְהִנֵּ֖ה רֹעֲשִׁ֑ים וְכָל־הַגְּבָע֖וֹת הִתְקַלְקָֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

Rāʾîtî the hehārîm, and hinnēh rōʿăšîm; and all the gəbāʿôt hitqaləqālû

Grammar Details

*Rāʾîtî*: qal perfect, 1st singular - I saw/looked
*hehārîm*: masculine plural noun - mountains
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
*rōʿăšîm*: qal participle, masculine plural - quaking/shaking
*gəbāʿôt*: feminine plural noun - hills
*hitqaləqālû*: hithpalpel perfect, 3rd common plural - they wavered/swayed

Word Meanings

*Rāʾîtî*: saw/looked at/observed
*hehārîm*: mountains/mountain ranges
*hinnēh*: behold/look/see
*rōʿăšîm*: quaking/shaking/trembling
*gəbāʿôt*: hills/heights
*hitqaləqālû*: wavered/swayed/moved to and fro

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 38:20 : 20 so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Isa 5:25 : 25 Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Jer 10:10 : 10 But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
Jer 8:16 : 16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.
Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Hab 3:6 : 6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.
Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.
Judg 5:4-5 : 4 Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water. 5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Kgs 19:11 : 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And, behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake:
Ps 18:7 : 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
Ps 77:18 : 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
Ps 97:4 : 4 His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.
Ps 114:4-7 : 4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs. 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,

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Jer 4:23
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23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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4The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
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5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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10The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.
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4His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.
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Ps 18:7
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7Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.
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Ps 77:18
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Ps 68:8
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