רָעַםrâʻam
thunder
Pronunciation: raw-am' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7481
Meanings
Qal: make the sound of thunder, thunder (Psalms 96:11; 1 Chronicles 16:32; Psalms 98:7)
Hiph`il: thunder, cause thunder (Psalms 29:3; Psalms 18:14; 1 Samuel 7:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 1:6 So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 Those who fight against the Lord will be shattered. He thunders against them from heaven; the Lord judges throughout the earth. He gives power to his king; he increases the strength of his anointed one.”
- 1 Samuel 7:10 Just as Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines arrived to attack Israel. But the Lord spoke with a mighty voice of thunder from heaven that day, and the Philistines were thrown into such confusion that the Israelites defeated them.
- 2 Samuel 22:14 The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
- 1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy!
- Job 37:4 Then comes the roaring of the thunder— the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain it when he speaks.
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).