Psalm 77:18
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
בָּרָק
bârâq
lightning; by analogy, a gleam; concretely, a flashing sword
אוֹר
ʼôwr
to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)
תֵּבֵל
têbêl
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia,...
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
רָגַז
râgaz
to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
Key Terms in This Verse
אוֹר ʼôwr
to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)
Study H215 →בָּרָק bârâq
lightning; by analogy, a gleam; concretely, a flashing sword
Study H1300 →רָגַז râgaz
to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
Study H7264 →תֵּבֵל têbêl
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine
Study H8398 →שָׁמַיִם shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Study H8064 →Cross References
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
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 his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
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.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that...
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