רֶ֫טֶט
trembling
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7374 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
רטט (reṭeṭ) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “trembling.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Jeremiah dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but Jeremiah 49:24. Sharing its root, it stands alongside רתת. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7374 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Fear 1×
- American Standard Version: Trembling 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Panic 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7374 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7374 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7374 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- trembling, panic
Word origin
רֶ֫טֶט n.[m.] trembling, panic;—abs. Je 49:24
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to tremble
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
*רָטַט
- , Pi. רִטֵּט to run, leap. Cant. R. to I, 9 (ref. to Ps. CVI, 20) חרטומי … כמְרַטֵּט לפניהם the Egyptian magicians made sorcery before them, and it (the golden calf) appeared as if it were leaping before them; [v., however, קִרְטֵעַ]. e.g. Psalms 106:20
רְטַט
- (cmp. רתת) to tremble, shake. Targ. Job VII, 5 (Ms. רַטֵּיט Pa.).
- to shake, cause to tremble. Targ. Ps. XXIX, 8 (ed. Wil. מרטש).
- to be shaken, tremble. Targ. II Esth. V, 4. Targ. Ps. XVIII, 8 אִתְרְטִיטוּ Ms. (ed. אתרטישו; h. text ויתגעשו).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7374, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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