רַעַשׁraʻash
quaking, shaking
Pronunciation: rah'-ash · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7494
Meanings
1. specifically earthquake (Amos 1:1; Zechariah 14:5; 1 Kings 19:11)
2. quaking, trembling (Ezekiel 12:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 19:11 “Go out and stand before me on the mountain,” the Lord told him. And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
- 1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper.
- Job 39:24 It paws the ground fiercely and rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.
- Job 41:29 Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
- Isaiah 9:5 The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned. They will be fuel for the fire.
- Isaiah 29:6 I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire.
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).