Hebrew verb · H7481
רָעַם
raamraw-am'
to thunder
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râʻam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7481is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7481
to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger)
The King James renders it: make to fret, roar, thunder, trouble.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
raam is rendered "to thunder". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 1:6Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.
1 Samuel 1:6הַרְּעִמָ֑הּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he thunders3
- let it thunder3
- and he thundered2
- he thundered1
- he will thunder1
- they have been disconcerted1
- to disconcert her1
- will you thunder1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הִרְעִ֑ים1
- הַרְּעִמָ֑הּ1
- וַיַּרְעֵ֬ם1
- וַיַּרְעֵ֣ם1
- יִֽרְעַ֥ם1
- יִרְעַ֣ם1
- יִרְעַ֤ם1
- יַרְעֵ֔ם1
- יַרְעֵ֥ם1
- יַ֭רְעֵם1
- יַרְעֵ֤ם1
- רָעֲמ֖וּ1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVhj3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- Hc/Vhw3ms2Hc/Vhw3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVhcc/Sp3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhj2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
1 Samuel
three uses
Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.
- הַרְּעִמָ֑הּhareimahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to disconcert her
Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
- יַרְעֵ֔םyaremverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will thunder
As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
- וַיַּרְעֵ֣םvaiyaremHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he thundered
2 Samuel
one use
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
- יַרְעֵ֥םyaremverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he thundered
1 Chronicles
one use
Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.
- יִרְעַ֤םyiramverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it thunder
Job
three uses
Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
- יַ֭רְעֵםyaremverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he thunders
God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
- יַרְעֵ֤םyaremverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he thunders
Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
- תַרְעֵֽם׃taremverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you thunder
Psalms
four uses
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
- וַיַּרְעֵ֬םvaiyaremHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he thundered
The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
- הִרְעִ֑יםhirimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he thunders
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
- יִֽרְעַ֥םyiramverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it thunder
Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- יִרְעַ֣םyiramverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it thunder
Ezekiel
one use
All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
- רָעֲמ֖וּraamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been disconcerted
The letters
Gematria 310· 870 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.