Strong's #2119: zachal (pronounced zaw-khal')

a primitive root; to crawl; by implication, to fear:--be afraid, serpent, worm.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zâchal

1) to shrink back, crawl away

1a) (Qal) crawling, creeping (participle) (metonymy)

2) to fear, be afraid

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Deuteronomy 32:24: "of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust."
Job 32:6: "and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show"
Micah 7:17: "like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of"