zu.a denotes the trembling of peoples before a ruler’s great power in its clearest attested setting.

The attested use depicts peoples trembling before the greatness and authority granted to a ruler; the same participial form also occurs in a verse celebrating divine deliverance, though the translation does not isolate its contribution there.

1. Trembling before overwhelming authority · dominant

   In Daniel 5:19, the masculine plural active participle stands in the clause about all peoples, nations, and languages before the ruler’s greatness; the APB renders the clause “all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him.” The same participial form occurs in Daniel 6:27 within a proclamation of deliverance, signs, and wonders, but the APB does not make this term’s specific contribution identifiable.

   Daniel 5:19Daniel 6:27

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Daniel 5:19, the APB presents the clause as peoples who “trembled and feared before him.” In Daniel 6:27, the translation celebrates deliverance and wonders without an identifiable English rendering for the term.