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Hebrew verb · H7493

רָעַשׁ

raashraw-ash

to shake

30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: râʻash

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7493is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 28
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7493

to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)

The King James renders it: make afraid, (re-) move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.

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

raash is rendered "to shake". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 5:4O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-eight different ways.

The first use

O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

Judges 5:4רָעָ֔שָׁה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and it quaked3
  • about to shake2
  • and they will shake2
  • they will shake2
  • ¿ do you make leap it1
  • and I will shake1
  • and it may shake1
  • and it shook1
  • and they have shaken1
  • I caused to tremble1
  • it has shaken1
  • it quaked1

and 13 more, 30 uses in all

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.

רָעַעraabe evilUses107
רָעַםraamto thunderUses13
רָעַףraaphto dripUses5
רָעַדraadto trembleUses3
רָעַץraatsto shatterUses2
רָעַלraalto quiverUses1

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

28 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

  • יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּ2
  • רָעֲשָׁ֖ה2
  • הִרְעַ֣שְׁתָּה1
  • הִרְעַ֣שְׁתִּי1
  • הְֽ֭תַרְעִישֶׁנּוּ1
  • וְהִרְעַשְׁתִּי֙1
  • וְיִרְעֲשׁ֣וּ1
  • וַֽיִּרְעֲשׁ֖וּ1
  • וְרָעֲשׁ֣וּ1
  • וְרָעֲשׁ֖וּ1
  • וְתִרְעַ֥שׁ1
  • וַתִּרְעַ֣שׁ1

and 16 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3fs4Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVqp3fs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular3HVhrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
  • Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
  • Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
  • HC/Vqu3fs1HC/Vqu3fs
  • HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • question particle + verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HTi/Vhi2ms/Sp3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhp1cs

Judges

one use
  • O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

    Judges 5:4

    • רָעָ֔שָׁהraashahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it shook

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

    2 Samuel 22:8

    • וַתִּרְעַשׁ֙vatirashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it quaked

Job

one use
  • Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

    Job 39:20

    • הְֽ֭תַרְעִישֶׁנּוּhetarishenuquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ do you make leap it

Psalms

six uses
  • Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

    Psalms 18:7

    • וַתִּרְעַ֨שׁ׀vatirashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it quaked
  • though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

    Psalms 46:3

    • יִֽרְעֲשֽׁוּ־yirashu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will shake
  • You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

    Psalms 60:2

    • הִרְעַ֣שְׁתָּהhirashtahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have made quake
  • the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

    Psalms 68:8

    • רָעָ֨שָׁה׀raashahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it quaked
  • May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.

    Psalms 72:16

    • יִרְעַ֣שׁyirashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may it wave
  • Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

    Psalms 77:18

    • וַתִּרְעַ֣שׁvatirashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it shook

Isaiah

three uses
  • Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

    Isaiah 13:13

    • וְתִרְעַ֥שׁvetirashHC/Vqu3fstagged: and it may shake
  • Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

    Isaiah 14:16

    • מַרְעִ֖ישׁmarishverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: made shake
  • Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

    Isaiah 24:18

    • וַֽיִּרְעֲשׁ֖וּvaiyirashuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have shaken

Jeremiah

six uses
  • I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

    Jeremiah 4:24

    • רֹעֲשִׁ֑יםroashimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: quaking
  • The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

    Jeremiah 8:16

    • רָעֲשָׁ֖הraashahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has shaken
  • But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

    Jeremiah 10:10

    • תִּרְעַ֣שׁtirashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it shakes
  • At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

    Jeremiah 49:21

    • רָעֲשָׁ֖הraashahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will shake
  • At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.

    Jeremiah 50:46

    • נִרְעֲשָׁ֖הnirashahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will quake
  • The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

    Jeremiah 51:29

    • וַתִּרְעַ֥שׁvatirashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it quaked

Ezekiel

five uses
  • His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

    Ezekiel 26:10

    • תִּרְעַ֙שְׁנָה֙tirashnahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will shake
  • This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?

    Ezekiel 26:15

    • יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּyirashuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: will they quake
  • The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.

    Ezekiel 27:28

    • יִרְעֲשׁ֖וּyirashuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will quake
  • I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

    Ezekiel 31:16

    • הִרְעַ֣שְׁתִּיhirashtiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I caused to tremble
  • The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.

    Ezekiel 38:20

    • וְרָעֲשׁ֣וּveraashuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will shake

Joel

two uses
  • Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

    Joel 2:10

    • רָעֲשׁ֖וּraashuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they shake
  • The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

    Joel 3:16

    • וְרָעֲשׁ֖וּveraashuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will shake

Amos

one use
  • I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

    Amos 9:1

    • וְיִרְעֲשׁ֣וּveyirashuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may shake

Nahum

one use
  • The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.

    Nahum 1:5

    • רָעֲשׁ֣וּraashuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they quake

Haggai

three uses
  • For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

    Haggai 2:6

    • מַרְעִישׁ֙marishverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to shake
  • I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.

    Haggai 2:7

    • וְהִרְעַשְׁתִּי֙vehirashtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will shake
  • “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:

    Haggai 2:21

    • מַרְעִ֔ישׁmarishverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to shake

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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