גָּעַשׁgâʻash
shake, quake
Pronunciation: gaw-ash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1607
Meanings
Qal: quake (Psalms 18:8; 2 Samuel 22:8)
Pu`al: be shaken up, convulsed (Job 34:20)
Hithpa`el: shake back and forth, toss or reel to and fro (2 Samuel 22:8; Jeremiah 46:7; Psalms 18:8)
Hithpo`el: id. (Jeremiah 25:16; Jeremiah 46:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 22:8 “Then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the heavens shook; they quaked because of his anger.
- Job 34:20 In a moment they die. In the middle of the night they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
- Psalms 18:7 Then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the mountains shook; they quaked because of his anger.
- Jeremiah 5:22 Have you no respect for me? Why don’t you tremble in my presence? I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross. The waves may toss and roar, but they can never pass the boundaries I set.
- Jeremiah 25:16 When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”
- Jeremiah 46:7 “Who is this, rising like the Nile at floodtime, overflowing all the land?
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).