רָעַשׁ
râʻash · raw-ash
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
- to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.
- also, a field of grain), particularly through fear
- specifically, to spring (as a locust)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: make afraid, (re-) move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to see and know › to consume, to destroy
The head, the highest that works to see and know that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָעַשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall shake4 · 13%
- shall tremble3 · 10%
- trembled2 · 7%
- and trembled2 · 7%
- shake2 · 7%
- is moved2 · 7%
- and i will shake2 · 7%
- canst thou make him afraid1 · 3%
- to tremble1 · 3%
- shook1 · 3%
- thereof shall shake1 · 3%
- and shook1 · 3%
- shall remove1 · 3%
- that did shake1 · 3%
- do shake1 · 3%
- and, lo, they trembled1 · 3%
- to shake1 · 3%
- may shake1 · 3%
- quake1 · 3%
- i will shake1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.