גָּעַשׁ
gaash · shake, be shaken
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1607 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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gaash (גָּעַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shake, be shaken”.
To shake violently, to be stirred up. Said of the earth, of waters or of someone who staggers.
How to say it
ga·ash
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To heave, quake; like rising waters.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- shook ×4
- surge ×2
- are shaken ×1
- stagger ×1
- they toss ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 22:8
The earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and shook, because he burned with anger.
- Job 34:20
In a moment they die, and at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and they remove the mighty without hand.
- Psalms 18:7
The earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he burned with anger.
- Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear me? declares YHWH. Do you not tremble before me, who placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, an eternal decree, and it cannot pass beyond it? And they toss, but they cannot prevail; and its waves roar, but they cannot pass beyond it.
- Jeremiah 25:16
And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I am sending among them.”
- Jeremiah 46:7
Who is this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge?
- Jeremiah 46:8
Egypt rises like the Nile, and like the rivers the waters surge; and it said, “I will rise, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and those who dwell in it.”
And 2 more times.