רוּף rûwph — properly, to triturate (in a mortar), i.e. (figuratively) to agitate (by concussion)
Translated in the KJV as tremble.
a primitive root; properly, to triturate (in a mortar), i.e. (figuratively) to agitate (by concussion).
rûwph in each stem
Po'al
Intensive · passive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject has it done to them
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
יְרוֹפָ֑פוּ Job 26:11 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
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 ›