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# גָּעַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1607

**shake** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1607/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּעַשׁ: vb. shake, quake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1607/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shake, quake (NH id.)— Impf. וַתִּגְעַשׁ ψ 18:8a = 2 S 22:8a Kt (Qr Hithp.);—quake of earth at theoph, ψ 18:8 = 2 S 22:8 (read Kt; ‖ רעשׁ). Impf. be shaken up, convulsed יְגֹעֲשׁוּ־עָם Jb 34:20 a people are convulsed. shake back and forth, toss or reel to and fro וַיִּתְגָּעַשׁ Qr 2 S 22:8a (Qal); יִתְגָּֽעֲשׁוּ Je 46:7, וַיִּתְגָּֽעֲשׁוּ ψ 18:8b + 2 times;—of mountains ψ 18:8b = 2 S 22:8b; of waves of sea, Je 5:22; of waters of Nile Je 46:7 (cf. v 8). Pf. וְהִתְגֹּעֲשׁוּ consec. Je 25:16; Impf. יִתְגֹּעֲשׁוּ Je 46:8; id. of waters of Nile Je 46:8; of drunken men, reel to and fro, Je 25:16 (fig. of nations confounded by י׳).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they shook back and forth (2); they surge (2); it shook (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 46:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.7/#tree)

מִי־זֶ֖ה כַּיְאֹ֣ר יַֽעֲלֶ֑ה כַּנְּהָר֕וֹת יִֽתְגָּעֲשׁ֖וּ מֵימָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* who? this like the River does.he.rise like (the) rivers they.surge waters his

*JPS 1917:* Who is this like the Nile that riseth up, like the rivers whose waters toss themselves?

[Job 34:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.20/#tree)

רֶ֤גַע ׀ יָמֻתוּ֮ וַחֲצ֪וֹת לָ֥יְלָה יְגֹעֲשׁ֣וּ עָ֣ם וְיַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְיָסִ֥ירוּ אַ֝בִּ֗יר לֹ֣א בְיָֽד׃

*Word for word:* a.moment they.die and.\[the\] middle of.\[the\].night they.are.shaken a.people and they.pass.away and people.remove \[the\].mighty not by a.hand

*JPS 1917:* In a moment they die, even at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1607.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1607/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).