pressure
a.qah denotes the pressure associated with the speaker’s trembling heart amid terrors of death.
The lone attestation places a.qah in the speaker’s inward distress: a construct-form noun occurs with the heart as it trembles while terrors of death fall upon the speaker.
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Pressure in inward distress · dominant
In Psalm 55:4, the feminine singular construct form occurs in the clause concerning the speaker’s heart; the APB renders the verse, “My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.” This setting supports pressure as an experience of inner distress, though the translation does not isolate the term with a word-for-word equivalent.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Psalm 55:4, the APB presents the verse through a trembling heart and terrors of death and does not isolate a.qah with a distinct English rendering.