Bible Encyclopedia: Reel

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Strong's Hebrew

7477. raal -- to quiver, shake, reel
... 7476, 7477. raal. 7478 . to quiver, shake, reel. Transliteration: raal Phonetic
Spelling: (raw-al') Short Definition: brandished. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6328. puq -- to reel, totter
... puq. 6329 . to reel, totter. Transliteration: puq Phonetic Spelling: (pook) Short
Definition: totter. ... root Definition to reel, totter NASB Word Usage totter (2 ...
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7686. shagah -- to go astray, err
... 7685, 7686. shagah. 7687 . to go astray, err. Transliteration: shagah Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-gaw') Short Definition: reel. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2287. chagag -- to make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast
... 1), observe (1), reeled (1). celebrate, dance, keep, hold a solemn feast
holiday, reel to and fro. A primitive root (compare chagra ...
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5128. nua -- to quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter
... and figuratively (as subjoined) -- continually, fugitive, X make, to (go) up and
down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter ...
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8582. taah -- to err
... A primitive root; to vacillate, ie Reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also
causative of both -- (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to ...
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2904. tul -- to hurl, cast
... A primitive root; to pitch over or reel; hence (transitively) to cast down or out --
carry away, (utterly) cast (down, forth, out), send out. 2903, 2904. ...
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Library

The Scales of Judgment
... been made drunk with the wine of her fornication, shall soon also have to drink
with her of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath; and they shall reel to and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the scales of judgment.htm

Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!
... meaning following one after another, as I suppose David's five stones out of the
brook would have done if the first had not been enough to make the giant reel. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/never never never never never.htm

But If, for the Contest's Sake, God had Appointed Martyrdoms for ...
... Where there are mere contests, there are some wounds: fists make reel, heels kick
like butting rams, boxing-gloves mangle, whips leave gashes. ...
/.../tertullian/scorpiace antidote for the scorpions sting/chapter vi but if for.htm

A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising
... To be unsettled in religion, argues want of judgement. If their heads were not
giddy, men would not reel so fast from one opinion to another. ...
/.../watson/a body of divinity/1 a preliminary discourse to.htm

Gratitude and Love to God
... What bonds of gratitude I feel. No language can declare; Beneath the oppressive
weight I reel,. 'Tis more than I can bear: When shall I that blessing prove,. ...
/.../gratitude and love to god.htm

The Bible
... sin of man, he does not dash him away and spurn him with his foot; he does not shake
him by the neck over the gulf of hell, until his brain doth reel and then ...
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Frank Leigh's Song. AD 1586
... To worship, not to wed, Celestials bid me: I dreamt to mate in heaven, and wake
in hell; For ever doom'd, Ixion-like, to reel On mine own passions' ever ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/frank leighs song a d 1586.htm

A March
... East winds howling o'er us; Clay-lands knee-deep spread before us; Mire and ice
and snow and sleet; Aching backs and frozen feet; Knees which reel as marches ...
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The Lesson of Memory
... Sunday in a year, are like the knots on a sailor's log, which, as they pass through
his fingers, tell him how fast it is being paid out from the reel, and how ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the lesson of memory.htm

Nearness to God the Key to Life's Puzzle
... as to how it comes, if God is good and wise and strong, that bad men should prosper
and good men should suffer, has been making the Psalmist's faith reel. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/nearness to god the key.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

2. (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.

3. (n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.

4. (n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.

5. (v. t.) To roll.

6. (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

7. (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

8. (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

Thesaurus

Reel (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland;
also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. ...
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Stagger (20 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking;
not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. ...
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Visions (43 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:7 But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because ...
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Totter (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Multi-Version Concordance Totter
(9 Occurrences). Psalms 46:6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. ...
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Swallowed (43 Occurrences)
... Psalms 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their
wits end. (See JPS YLT). ... The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. ...
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Fro (54 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Psalms 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man, and are at their wit's end. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Rock (176 Occurrences)
... To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as,
to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. ...
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Drunkard (15 Occurrences)
... drunkard. (DBY YLT NIV). Psalms 107:27 They reel to and fro, and move as
a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up. (YLT). ...
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Confused (13 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Isaiah 28:7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine ...
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Err (41 Occurrences)
... (KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT). Isaiah 28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with
strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. ...
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Bible Concordance

Reel (6 Occurrences)

Psalms 60:3 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
(See RSV)

Psalms 107:27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS NAS NIV)

Isaiah 28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 25:16 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Subtopics

Reel

Related Terms

Stagger (20 Occurrences)

Visions (43 Occurrences)

Totter (9 Occurrences)

Swallowed (43 Occurrences)

Fro (54 Occurrences)

Rock (176 Occurrences)

Drunkard (15 Occurrences)

Confused (13 Occurrences)