Psalm 114:4

Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data

"The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs."

Word-by-Word Analysis

The

הַר

har

H2022

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

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רָקַד

râqad

H7540

properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)

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דָּמָה

dâmâh

H1819

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

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אַיִל

ʼayil

H352

properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an o...

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מְעַט

mᵉʻaṭ

H4592

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

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גִּבְעָה

gibʻâh

H1389

a hillock

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דָּמָה

dâmâh

H1819

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

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כֶּבֶשׂ

kebes

H3532

a ram (just old enough to butt)

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Key Terms in This Verse

skipped H7540

רָקַד râqad

properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)

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hills H1389

גִּבְעָה gibʻâh

a hillock

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rams H352

אַיִל ʼayil

properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree

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lambs H3532

כֶּבֶשׂ kebes

a ram (just old enough to butt)

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mountains H2022

הַר har

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

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little H4592

מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

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like H1819

דָּמָה dâmâh

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

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like H1819

דָּמָה dâmâh

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

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Cross References

Exodus 19:18 cross-reference

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Exodus 20:18 cross-reference

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

Habakkuk 3:6 cross-reference

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.

Revelation 20:11 cross-reference

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Habakkuk 3:8 cross-reference

Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

Psalm 18:7 cross-reference

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Psalm 29:6 cross-reference

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Nahum 1:5 cross-reference

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.

Psalm 39:6 cross-reference

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 68:16 cross-reference

Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

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