Lexicon :: Strong's H2342 - ḥûl

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

“Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’

You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;

you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

The servants waited until they became embarrassed and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened the doors ​— ​and there was their lord lying dead on the floor!

“Watch, and when you see the young women of Shiloh come out to perform the dances, each of you leave the vineyards and catch a wife for yourself from the young women of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

The Benjaminites did this and took the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and lived in them.

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers found him and severely wounded him.[fn]

“May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle,[fn] or someone who falls by the sword or starves.”

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers spotted him and severely wounded him.

let the whole earth tremble before him.

The world is firmly established;

it cannot be shaken.

Esther’s female servants and her eunuchs came and reported the news to her, and the queen was overcome with fear. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear so that he would take off his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.

Were you the first human ever born,

or were you brought forth before the hills?

A wicked person writhes in pain all his days,

throughout the number of years reserved for the ruthless.

Nothing is left for him to consume;

therefore, his prosperity will not last.

The departed spirits tremble

beneath the waters and all that inhabit them.

how much less when[fn] you complain[fn]

that you do not see him,

that your case is before him

and you are waiting for him.

Do you know when mountain goats give birth?

Have you watched the deer in labor?

His ways are always secure;[fn]

your lofty judgments have no effect on him;[fn]

he scoffs at all his adversaries.

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness;

the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Be silent before the LORD and wait expectantly for him;

do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way,

by the person who carries out evil plans.

Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;

I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

My heart shudders within me;

terrors of death sweep over me.

The water saw you, God.

The water saw you; it trembled.

Even the depths shook.

Before the mountains were born,

before you gave birth to the earth and the world,

from eternity to eternity, you are God.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness;

let the whole earth tremble before him.

His lightning lights up the world;

the earth sees and trembles.

Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,

at the presence of the God of Jacob,

“I was born

when there were no watery depths

and no springs filled with water.

The north wind produces rain,

and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing by

is like an archer who wounds everyone indiscriminately.

They will be horrified;

pain and agony will seize them;

they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.

They will look at each other,

their faces flushed with fear.

Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have not been in labor or given birth.

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

As a pregnant woman about to give birth

writhes and cries out in her pains,

so we were before you, LORD.

“Woe to the one who says to his father,

‘What are you fathering? ’

or to his mother,[fn]

‘What are you giving birth to? ’ ”

Look to Abraham your father,

and to Sarah who gave birth to you.

When I called him, he was only one;

I blessed him and made him many.

“Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth;

burst into song and shout,

you who have not been in labor!

For the children of the desolate one will be more

than the children of the married woman,”

says the LORD.

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;

before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

My anguish, my anguish![fn] I writhe in agony!

Oh, the pain in[fn] my heart!

My heart pounds;

I cannot be silent.

For you, my soul,

have heard the sound of the ram’s horn —

the shout of battle.

LORD, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness?

You have struck them, but they felt no pain.

You finished them off,

but they refused to accept discipline.

They made their faces harder than rock,

and they refused to return.

“Do you not fear me?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Do you not tremble before me,

the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,

an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?

The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.

They roar but cannot pass over it.

Look, a storm from the LORD!

Wrath has gone out,

a whirling storm.

It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.

Look, a storm from the LORD!

Wrath has gone out,

a churning storm.

It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.

The earth quakes and trembles

because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand:

to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

The punishment of my dear people

is greater than that of Sodom,

which was overthrown in an instant

without a hand laid on it.

“I will set fire to Egypt;

Pelusium will writhe in anguish,

Thebes will be breached,

and Memphis will face foes in broad daylight.[fn]