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# רַעַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7482

**thunder** — used 6 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

thunder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7482/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַ֫עַם: thunder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7482/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thunder;—ascribed to י׳: ר׳ abs. Is 29:6, בְּסֵתֶר רַ֑עַם ψ 81:8 (Baer Gi; i. e. thunder-cloud); sf. קוֹל רַעַמְךָ 77:19; 104:7; cstr. רַעַם גבורתו Jb 26:14 (fig. of י׳’s display of might; opp. שֵׁמֶץ); fig. of captins, ר׳ שָׂרִים 39:25, i.e. thunderous shouting (+ תְּרוּעָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: your thunder (2); \[the\] thunder (1); of thunder (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.7/#tree)

מִן־גַּעֲרָ֣תְךָ֣ יְנוּס֑וּן מִן־ק֥וֹל רַֽ֝עַמְךָ֗ יֵחָפֵזֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* from rebuke your they fled from the.sound your.thunder your they hurried.away

*JPS 1917:* At Thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of Thy thunder they hasted away —

[Job 39:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.25/#tree)

בְּדֵ֤י שֹׁפָ֨ר ׀ יֹ֘אמַ֤ר הֶאָ֗ח וּֽ֭מֵרָחוֹק יָרִ֣יחַ מִלְחָמָ֑ה רַ֥עַם שָׂ֝רִים וּתְרוּעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* in.\[the\] sufficiency of.a.horn it.says aha! and from a.distance it.smells battle \[the\].thunder of.commanders and.\[the\] battle-cry

*JPS 1917:* As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7482.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7482/): 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).