English Bible words starting with Q
34 meanings beginning with Q, in alphabetical order. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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quadrans1 word
quail1 word
quake4 words
- ragazרָגַזto shake: to be thrown into violent, involuntary motion, whether the earth quaking, a person trembling, or an inward shuddering of dread, grief, or excitement
- ra'ashרָעַשׁto shake or quake: to move with a violent, shuddering motion, the way the ground heaves in an earthquake
- ga'ashגָּעַשׁto heave and lurch: to be thrown into violent rocking motion, the way ground bucks in an earthquake or water churns in a flood
- ḥaragחָרַגto quakenot studied yet
quaked1 word
- zalalזָלַלto treat what is precious as cheap: to squander it, or to be counted worthless
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- to quake or tremble, said of mountains shaking at God's coming
- zalalזָלַלto treat what is precious as cheap: to squander it, or to be counted worthless
quaking1 word
qualify1 word
quano1 word
quantity2 words
- metronμέτρονa measure: the vessel or rod used to measure something, or the amount it holds
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- an allotted portion: the specific amount or share that God or Christ assigns to a person
- a fixed quota that must be filled before judgment falls, as in filling up the measure of guilt
- tokhenתֹּכֶןquantitynot studied yet
- metronμέτρονa measure: the vessel or rod used to measure something, or the amount it holds
quarrel11 words
- polemeōπολεμέωto make war on someone: to attack an enemy in open, sustained conflict, and so to be locked in hostility with them.
- machēμάχηquarrelnot studied yet
- machomaiμάχομαιto quarrelnot studied yet
- erisἔριςstrife: the open, competitive quarreling that fractures a community
- natsahנָצָהto fight: to be locked against another party in an open struggle, most often two people coming to blows
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- to be left in ruins: of a city or a countryside, knocked into heaps of rubble and emptied of people
quarreling2 words
quarrels2 words
- midyanמִדְיָןquarrels, always in the plural: bickering that keeps going, and so the settled habit of a person who is always fighting.
- diakrisisδιάκρισιςdiscernment: the trained ability to tell things apart and judge their true character
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- quarreling: wrangling that breaks out over differing opinions
quarrelsome1 word
quarried stone1 word
quarry2 words
quart1 word
quarter1 word
Quartus1 word
queen8 words
- basilissaβασίλισσαqueennot studied yet
- malkahמַלְכָּהqueen: a woman of the highest royal rank
- geveretגְּבֶרֶתthe woman in charge: the female head a servant answers to, and by extension a ruling power pictured as such a woman
- gevirahגְּבִירָהqueennot studied yet
- melekhetמְלֶכֶתqueennot studied yet
quench3 words
quenched1 word
question6 words
- eperōtaōἐπερωτάωto put a question to someone: to ask, inquire, or question a person directly
- dialogizomaiδιαλογίζομαιto reason a matter through, weighing it up point by point, whether silently in one's own mind or out loud with others
- punthanomaiπυνθάνομαιto find something out by asking: to inquire about a matter, or to learn the answer the asking turns up
- suzēteōσυζητέωto go after a question together with other people: to talk it over with them or to argue it out against them
- zētēsisζήτησιςan inquiry: the act of seeking out an answer, whether by formal investigation or by arguing a question back and forth
quick3 words
quick-tempered1 word
quicken1 word
quicker1 word
quickly6 words
- maharמָהַרto hurry: to act quickly, without delay, or to be quick and rash by nature.
- tachuταχύin a very short span: quickly, without delay, or soon. The same word covers how fast something happens and how little time passes before it does.
- tachosτάχοςspeed: taking very little time, whether the action itself is quick or the wait before it is short
- meherahמְהֵרָהhaste: the shortness of the time a thing takes or the time before it comes; used as an adverb, quickly or soon
- maherמַהֵרquickly: at high speed or after only a little time; speedily, soon, in haste
quiet11 words
- shaqatשָׁקַטto be quiet and undisturbed: to settle into calm and stay free of turmoil
- menuḥahמְנוּחָהrest as a place reached: the settled safety and permanence at the end of a search, from a physical resting place to God's own dwelling
- tamתָּםwhole and complete, with nothing lacking or false in it: sound and entire, and of a person, of undivided integrity
- sha'ananשַׁאֲנָןundisturbed and unafraid: settled in an ease that is either God's gift of safety or a person's own smug indifference
- shalevשָׁלֵוat ease: settled and undisturbed, comfortable enough that nothing feels threatening
quieted1 word
quietly2 words
- lathraλάθραquietlynot studied yet
- latלָאטsecrecy: the cover under which something is done so that nobody notices it happening
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- secret arts: the hidden craft by which trained specialists produce effects nobody can account for
quietness5 words
- hēsuchiaἡσυχίαquietness: a calm, settled, peaceable manner or state, the opposite of agitation rather than the absence of speech
- shalvahשַׁלְוָהundisturbed quiet: the calm of being safe and comfortable with nothing pressing in, a calm Scripture can either bless or condemn
- naḥatנַחַתquiet: the settled calm that is left when strain, noise, and hurry stop
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- a coming down: the downward stroke of something brought down, or what is set down in place
- sheliשְׁלִיquietnessnot studied yet
- sheqetשֶׁקֶטquietnessnot studied yet
quilt1 word
Quirinius1 word
quiver4 words
quivering2 words