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# רַעַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7494

**quaking** — used 17 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

quaking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7494/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַ֫עַשׁ: n.m. quaking, shaking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7494/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 10:22 quaking, shaking;—ר׳ abs. 1 K 19:11 +, cstr. Na 3:2; Jb 41:21;— specif. earthquake, Am 1:1; Zc 14:5; 1 K 19:11(×2), 12; fig. of י׳’s judgment Is 29:6; Ez 38:19; cf. (in vision) קוֹל ר׳ גָּדוֹל 3:12, 13; prob. also 37:7 (𝔊 Thes Co Krae; \> rustling, rattling, Hi-Sm Toy); hence hyperbol. of shaking of earth by tramping of warriors Is 9:4, by war-chariots Je 47:3, cf. 10:22, or wheels Na 3:2, by war-horse(ʾs hoofs) Jb 39:24. \*(רֹנֶז+) quaking, trembling, of pers. Ez 12:18. shaking, quivering, of dart Jb 41:21 (al. rushing sound).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 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: earthquake (5); shaking (3); an earthquake (2).

## In the verses

[Job 41:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.21/#tree)

כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* like chaff they.are.regarded a.club and it.laughs to.\[the\] shaking of.a.javelin

*JPS 1917:* Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

[Job 39:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.24/#tree)

בְּרַ֣עַשׁ וְ֭רֹגֶז יְגַמֶּא־אָ֑רֶץ וְלֹֽא־יַ֝אֲמִ֗ין כִּי־ק֥וֹל שׁוֹפָֽר׃

*Word for word:* with shaking and excitement it.swallows \[the\].ground and not it.stands.firm (dm) \[the\].sound of.a.horn

*JPS 1917:* He swalloweth the ground with storm and rage; neither believeth he that it is the voice of the horn.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7494.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7494/): 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).