זוּעַ zûwaʻ — properly, to shake off, i.e. (figuratively) to agitate (as with fear)
Translated in the KJV as move, tremble, vex.
a primitive root; properly, to shake off, i.e. (figuratively) to agitate (as with fear).
zûwaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Pilpel
Participle (active) 1
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
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 ›