raam · thunder, irritate

What it means

raam (רָעַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thunder, irritate”.

To roar or thunder; to be agitated; to provoke or irritate.

How to say it

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

1. To make the heavens rumble, like YHWH.
2. To provoke someone to anger, make her seethe.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• thunder ×5
• thundered ×3
• thunders ×3
• are troubled ×1
• irritate her ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Ezekiel×1

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  And her rival would provoke her bitterly in order to irritate her, because YHWH had closed up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  YHWH: those who contend with him will be shattered; against them he will thunder in the heavens. YHWH will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and lift high the horn of his anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 7:10

  And it happened, as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, that the Philistines drew near for war against Israel; and YHWH thundered with a great voice on that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were struck down before Israel.

• 2 Samuel 22:14

  YHWH thundered from the heavens, and Elyon gave his voice.

• 1 Chronicles 16:32

  Let the sea thunder, and its fullness; let the field exult, and all that is in it.

• Job 37:4

  After it a voice roars; he thunders with the voice of his majesty, and he does not hold them back when his voice is heard.

• Job 37:5

  El thunders with his voice wondrously; he does great things, and we do not know them.

• Job 40:9

  Or do you have an arm like El’s, and with a voice like his can you thunder?

• Psalms 18:13

  YHWH thundered in the heavens, and Elyon gave his voice, hail and coals of fire.

• Psalms 29:3

  The voice of YHWH is over the waters; the El of glory thunders; YHWH is over many waters.

• Psalms 96:11

  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea thunder, and what fills it;

• Psalms 98:7

  Let the sea thunder, and what fills it, the world and those who dwell in it.

• Ezekiel 27:35

  All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and their kings bristle with horror; faces are troubled.