רַעַשׁ
raʻash · rah'-ash
vibration, bounding, uproar
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7493 (רָעַשׁ);
vibration, bounding, uproar
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: commotion, confused noise, earthquake, fierceness, quaking, rattling, rushing, shaking.
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 רַעַשׁ 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
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the earthquake3 · 18%
- rushing2 · 12%
- an earthquake1 · 6%
- was not in the earthquake1 · 6%
- with fierceness1 · 6%
- at the shaking1 · 6%
- is with confused noise1 · 6%
- and with earthquake1 · 6%
- commotion1 · 6%
- horses, at the rushing1 · 6%
- with quaking1 · 6%
- and behold a shaking1 · 6%
- shaking1 · 6%
- of the rattling1 · 6%
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.