What Does Job 37:1 Mean in the King James?
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Here the heart does not merely tremble, it springs from the very place where it had stood.
THE MEANING
When the force of what you perceive exceeds your settled frame, your heart can tremble and leap from its place; the response reaches the body’s center before it becomes an explanation. This verse gives that bodily disturbance its own truthful weight.
THE ROOT
יֶחֱרַד
yeḥarad
GROWS FROM
חרד
ḥ-r-d
to tremble, quake, or be seized with fear or awe
“trembleth” in this verse is yeḥarad. The same root can name both the body’s trembling and a person who trembles in response to what they encounter. The verse presents the heart’s shaking as a felt response, not merely an idea about fear.
ALSO GROWS
ḥărādāh: trembling, dread
חֲרָדָה
This noun makes the trembling a condition in its own right, echoing the heart’s immediate disturbance.
ḥārēd: one who trembles or responds with reverence
חָרֵד
The root can describe a responsive posture toward what is heard, widening the verse’s tremor beyond panic alone.
מִמְּקוֹמוֹ
mimməqomô
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
to rise, stand, or be established
The Hebrew verb rendered “is moved” has the sharper sense of springing or leaping from its place. “Place” (מָקוֹם, maqom, “place”) comes from קום (qum, “rise” or “stand”), so the verse pictures a heart losing its settled standing, not merely feeling uneasy.
ALSO GROWS
qum: rise, stand
קוּם
This is the root beneath “place,” linking the heart’s location with what stands or rises.
hēqîm: raise, establish
הֵקִים
This causative form shows the root’s connection to what is set upright, sharpening the image of a heart displaced from its standing.
THE PATTERN
The sound of overwhelming divine presence registers as trembling in the body and the created world.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.THE THREAD
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 was in the camp trembled.The same Hebrew root, חרד (ḥ-r-d, “tremble”), describes the people’s response to thunder and trumpet here. The root lets the trembling of a gathered people echo the trembling heart in Job.
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