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
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
רָקַד
râqad
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
אַיִל
ʼayil
properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an o...
מְעַט
mᵉʻaṭ
a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
Key Terms in This Verse
רָקַד râqad
properly, to stamp, i.e. to spring about (wildly or for joy)
Study H7540 →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
Study H352 →Cross References
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
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.
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.
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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