רָעַשׁrâʻash

quake, shake

Pronunciation: raw-ash · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7493

Meanings

Qal: quake, shake (Jeremiah 8:16; Jeremiah 49:21; Judges 5:4)

Niph`al: is made to quake (Jeremiah 50:46)

Hiph`il

1. cause to quake (Haggai 2:6; Haggai 2:7; Haggai 2:21)

2. cause (horse) to spring, leap (like locust) (Job 39:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 30 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 5:4 “Lord, when you set out from Seir and marched across the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the cloudy skies poured down rain.
  • 2 Samuel 22:8 “Then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the heavens shook; they quaked because of his anger.
  • Job 39:20 Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust? Its majestic snorting is terrifying!
  • Psalms 18:7 Then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the mountains shook; they quaked because of his anger.
  • Psalms 46:3 Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge! Interlude
  • Psalms 60:2 You have shaken our land and split it open. Seal the cracks, for the land trembles.
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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).