רָעַל râʻal — to reel, i.e. (figuratively) to brandish
Translated in the KJV as terribly shake.
a primitive root; to reel, i.e. (figuratively) to brandish.
râʻal in each stem
Hoph'al
Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them
Perfect (qatal) 1
הָרְעָֽלוּ Nah 2:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›