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# רָגַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7283

**be in tumult** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be in tumult [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7283/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָגַשׁ: vb. be in tumult commotion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7283/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be in tumult or commotion (Arabic رَجَسَ make a vehement noise; Biblical Aramaic Aramaic רְגַשׁ, ܪܓܰܫ be disturbed, in tumult (𝔗 Ithp. often for הָמָה, as ψ 46:6, שָׁאָה Is 17:12f.; ܪܓܽܘܫܝܳܐ for הָמו̇ן ibid.); but Syriac usually perceive, so NH Hiph., but Hithp. fall stormily upon);— Pf. 3 pl. ψ 2:1 רָֽגְשׁוּ why do the nations throng tumultuously?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: do they plot (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.2.1/#tree)

לָ֭מָּה רָגְשׁ֣וּ גוֹיִ֑ם וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים יֶהְגּוּ־רִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* why? do.they.plot nations and peoples do.they.devise? emptiness

*JPS 1917:* Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7283.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7283/): 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).