raash · quaking, earthquake

What it means

raash (רַעַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “quaking, earthquake”.

Quaking, shaking, rumbling; especially an earthquake.

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. When the ground trembles.
2. A loud noise, like of chariots.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• earthquake ×7
• quaking ×3
• shaking ×2
• commotion ×1
• rattling ×1
• rumble ×1
• rumbling ×1
• tumult ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×3
• Job×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Kings 19:11

  He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before YHWH.” And there, YHWH was passing by, and a great and strong wind was tearing mountains and breaking rocks before YHWH; YHWH was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake; YHWH was not in the earthquake.

• 1 Kings 19:12

  And after the earthquake, a fire; YHWH was not in the fire. And after the fire, a sound of thin silence.

• Job 39:24

  With shaking and agitation he gulps the ground, and he cannot stand still when the horn sounds.

• Job 41:29

  Like stubble is counted the club, and it laughs at the shaking of the javelin.

• Isaiah 9:5

  For every boot of the one tramping in tumult, and the cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

• Isaiah 29:6

  From YHWH Tsevaot she will be visited with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise, whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

• Jeremiah 10:22

  The sound of a report! Look, it comes, and a great commotion from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

• Jeremiah 47:3

  at the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rattling of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels; the fathers do not turn back to their children for the slackness of their hands,

• Ezekiel 3:12

  And a spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great quaking: “Blessed be the glory of YHWH from his place.”

• Ezekiel 3:13

  and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, and the sound of a great quaking.

• Ezekiel 12:18

  “Son of man, your bread with quaking you will eat, and your water with agitation and with anxiety you will drink.

• Ezekiel 37:7

  So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and there was a sound as I prophesied, and look, a rumbling, and the bones drew near, bone to its bone.

• Ezekiel 38:19

  And in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath, I have spoken: Surely on that day there will be a great earthquake on the ground of Israel.

• Amos 1:1

  The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

• Nahum 3:2

  The sound of the whip, and the sound of the rumble of the wheel, and galloping horse, and bounding chariot;

• Zechariah 14:5

  And you will flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal; and you will flee as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And YHWH my Elohim will come, and all the holy ones with you.

And 1 more times.