Word study

Gallop

5 Hebrew words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: galloping, gallop. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “gallop” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • רוּץ rûtsruntranslated this way 2 times of its 103 uses · Strong’s H7323Verb  ·  Translated: ran 22, run 21, guards 11, couriers 6

    Joel 2:4 Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.

    Amos 6:12 “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

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  • דַּהֲהַר dahăhargalloptranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H1726Noun  ·  Translated: mad galloping 1

    Judges 5:22 Then the hooves of horses thundered— the mad galloping of his stallions.

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  • שָׂרַךְ sâraktwisttranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H8308Verb  ·  Translated: galloping 1

    Jeremiah 2:23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

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  • שַׁעֲטָה shaăṭâhstampingtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H8161Noun  ·  Translated: galloping 1

    Jeremiah 47:3 at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

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  • דָּהַר dâharrush, dashtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H1725Verb  ·  Translated: galloping 1

    Nahum 3:2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.