raga · find rest, stir up

What it means

raga (רָגַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “find rest, stir up”.

Find rest, settle down; in another sense, stir up suddenly (as the sea); also to do something in an instant.

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 bring quiet, calm.
2. To churn the water of the sea until it roars.
3. Used to say 'in the blink of an eye'.
4. For the skin of a wound to harden and dry.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rest ×4
• instant ×2
• who stirs up ×2
• I will establish ×1
• hardens ×1
• he stilled ×1
• moment ×1
• repose ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×6

• Deuteronomy 28:65

  And among those nations you will find no repose, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; and YHWH will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

• Job 7:5

  My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dust; my skin hardens and festers.

• Job 26:12

  By his strength he stilled the sea, and by his insight he shattered Rahab.

• Proverbs 12:19

  The lip of truth stands firm forever, but a tongue of falsehood, for a moment.

• Isaiah 34:14

  And desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and the male goat will call to its companion; yes, there Lilith will rest and find for herself a resting place.

• Isaiah 51:4

  “Pay attention to me, my people, and my nation, give ear to me; for instruction will go out from me, and my justice as a light of the peoples I will establish.

• Isaiah 51:15

  And I am YHWH your Elohim, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Jeremiah 31:2

  Thus says YHWH: “It found favor in the wilderness, the people of the survivors of the sword; Israel goes to his rest.”

• Jeremiah 31:35

  Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for light by day, the statutes of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; YHWH Tsevaot is his name:

• Jeremiah 47:6

  Ah, sword of YHWH! How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; rest and be still!

• Jeremiah 49:19

  Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make him run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

• Jeremiah 50:34

  Their Redeemer is strong; YHWH Tsevaot is his name; he will surely plead their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and make tremble the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 50:44

  Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make them run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?