shuddering
pal.la.tsut denotes an experience of bodily or overwhelming alarm, shown as covering, terrifying, or seizing a person.
The attested use depicts an overwhelming, physically expressed alarm: it covers those in shame, terrifies the speaker, and seizes flesh. The contribution of the form in Psalm 55:6 cannot be isolated from the supplied translation.
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Overwhelming alarm affecting the body · dominant
All supplied forms are common feminine singular absolute nouns. In Ezekiel 7:18 the APB renders it as something that “will cover them” amid sackcloth and shame; in Isaiah 21:4 it “has terrified me,” and in Job 21:6 it “seizes my flesh” when the speaker remembers. Psalm 55:6 supplies the same form, but its APB rendering of the wish to fly away does not make the term's specific contribution clear.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “shuddering” in Ezekiel 7:18, Isaiah 21:4, and Job 21:6, presenting it as covering, terrifying, or seizing. In Psalm 55:6, the supplied translation does not visibly isolate a corresponding English expression.