Exodus 19:18:15Exod.19.18.W15TAB
וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד
vayekherad
“trembled”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-khe-RAD
- Extended
- vah-yeh-kheh-RAD
- IPA
- /waj.jɛħɛˈrad/
Meaning by language
- English
- trembled
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door |
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Word in context
- word
va-ye-khe-RAD
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-khe-RAD kol-ha-HAR
- clause
va-ya-AL a-sha-NO ke-E-shen ha-kiv-SHAN va-ye-khe-RAD kol-ha-HAR me-OD
- sentence
ve-HAR see-NAI a-SHAN kul-LO mip-NEI a-SHER ya-RAD a-LAV Ye-ho-VAH ba-ESH va-ya-AL a-sha-NO ke-E-shen ha-kiv-SHAN va-ye-khe-RAD kol-ha-HAR me-OD
Exegesis
The simile keeshen ha-kivshan {כְּעֶשֶׁן הַכִּבְשָׁן | kə-ʿe-šen ha-kiv-šān} ‘like the smoke of the furnace’ evokes a vivid kiln image, and the final wayyiqtol vayyecherad {וַיֶּחֱרַד | way-ye-ḥe-rad} ‘and trembled’, with subject kol-hahar {כָּל־הָהָר | kol-hā-har} ‘the whole mountain’ plus meod {מְאֹד | mə-ʾōd} ‘exceedingly’, culminates the theophanic display. English renders the wayyiqtol sequence with “was smoking,” “came down,” “rose,” and “trembled,” connects the reason with “because,” and preserves the simile with “like.”
Root and etymology
ch-r-dcheth–resh–daleth
“to tremble”
In context — Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was smoking everywhere because the LORD came down upon it in fire ; its smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled intensely.
About this coordinate
Exodus 19:18:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Exodus 19:18, so the Hebrew word וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד (vayekherad) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Exod.19.18.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.19.18.W15.S1) and character.