Jeremiah 4:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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 fowls of the heaven, 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 the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn 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 the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jer 8:16 : 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; 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 molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the 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 burned 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 fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Hab 3:6 : 6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Judg 5:4-5 : 4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. 5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kgs 19:11 : 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
Ps 18:7 : 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Ps 77:18 : 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened{H8689)} the world: the earth trembled{H8804)} and shook{H8799)}.
Ps 97:4 : 4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Ps 114:4-7 : 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and 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 without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
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Nah 1:5
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Hab 3:10
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10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Ps 97:4-5
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4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
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3For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
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18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
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Ps 18:7
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7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Hab 3:6-7
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6He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
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Ezek 38:20
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20So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, 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 2:14
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Job 4:14
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14Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Judg 5:4-5
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4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
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Isa 64:3
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Ps 104:8
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1 Chr 16:30
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Ps 77:18
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18The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened{H8689)} the world: the earth trembled{H8804)} and shook{H8799)}.
Ps 68:8
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Heb 12:21
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Job 28:9
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Isa 13:13
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13Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.