ragaz · tremble; be agitated

What it means

ragaz (רָגַז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tremble; be agitated”.

Shake, tremble, quiver; be troubled or enraged.

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. For the body or the earth to shake from fear, pain or a very great force.
2. To rage and be in an uproar, or to disturb others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• tremble ×13
• raging ×4
• shudder ×3
• trembled ×3
• quaked ×2
• shuddered ×2
• I will shake ×1
• belongs to those who provoke ×1
• have you disturbed me ×1
• he has shaken ×1
• others ×10

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×3

• Genesis 45:24

  Then he sent off his brothers, and they went; and he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”

• Exodus 15:14

  The peoples have heard; they tremble; anguish has seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

• Deuteronomy 2:25

  This day I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the face of the peoples under all the heavens, who will hear the report of you and tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

• 1 Samuel 14:15

  And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the post and the destroyers trembled, they too; the earth quaked, and it became a trembling of Elohim.

• 1 Samuel 28:15

  Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing up me?” Saul said, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are fighting against me, and Elohim has turned away from me and no longer answers me, either by the hand of the prophets or by dreams; so I have called you to make known to me what I should do.”

• 2 Samuel 7:10

  And I will appoint a place for my people, for Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again afflict them as at the beginning,

• 2 Samuel 18:33

  The king was shaken, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept; and thus he said as he went: “My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! If only I had died in your place, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• 2 Samuel 22:8

  The earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and shook, because he burned with anger.

• 2 Kings 19:27

  Your sitting down and your going out and your coming in I know, and your raging against me.

• 2 Kings 19:28

  Because your raging against me and your arrogance have come up into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.”

• 1 Chronicles 17:9

  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again consume them as at the beginning,

• Job 9:6

  who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

• Job 12:6

  The tents of devastators are at ease, and security belongs to those who provoke El, to the one who brings Eloah in his hand.

• Psalms 4:4

  Tremble and do not sin; speak in your heart on your bed and be silent. Selah.

• Psalms 18:7

  The earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he burned with anger.

• Psalms 77:16

  The waters saw you, Elohim; the waters saw you and writhed; the deeps also shuddered.

• Psalms 77:18

  The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightning flashes lit up the world; the earth shuddered and quaked.

• Psalms 99:1

  YHWH reigns; let the peoples shudder; he who sits upon the cherubim, let the earth tremble.

• Proverbs 29:9

  A wise man who goes to law with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

• Proverbs 30:21

  Under three things the earth trembles, and under four it cannot bear up:

• Isaiah 5:25

  Therefore the anger of YHWH burned against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 13:13

  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will quake out of its place at the wrath of YHWH Tsevaot, and on the day of his burning anger.

• Isaiah 14:9

  Sheol below is stirred up for you to meet your coming; it rouses for you the shades, all the male goats of the earth; it makes rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

• Isaiah 14:16

  Those who see you will gaze at you, they will ponder you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

• Isaiah 23:11

  His hand he has stretched out over the sea; he has shaken kingdoms; YHWH has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.

• Isaiah 28:21

  For as at Mount Perazim YHWH will rise up, as in the valley at Gibeon he will rage, to do his work, strange is his work, and to perform his labor, alien is his labor.

• Isaiah 32:10

  In days beyond a year you will shudder, you confident ones; for the grape harvest is finished, the ingathering will not come.

• Isaiah 32:11

  Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you confident ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and gird yourselves on your hips.

• Isaiah 37:28

  Your sitting down and your going out and your coming in I know, and your raging against me.

• Isaiah 37:29

  Because your raging against me and your arrogance have come up into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.”

• Isaiah 64:2

  as fire kindles dry branches, as fire makes water boil, to make known your name to your adversaries! Before you nations will tremble.

• Jeremiah 33:9

  And it will be to me a name of joy, a praise and a beauty before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good that I am doing for them; and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and because of all the peace that I am bringing about for it.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 16:43

  Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but raged against me with all these things, I also, look, will bring your way on your head, declares Adonai YHWH; and did you not commit the infamy on top of all your abominations?

• Joel 2:1

  Blow the horn in Zion, and sound the alarm on my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of YHWH is coming, for it is near;

• Joel 2:10

  Before it the earth quakes, the heavens shake; sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Amos 8:8

  Will not the earth tremble on account of this, and everyone who lives in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

• Micah 7:17

  They will lick dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they will come trembling out of their enclosures; before YHWH our Elohim they will tremble in dread, and they will be afraid of you.

• Habakkuk 3:7

  Under affliction I saw the tents of Cushan; the curtains of the land of Midian tremble.

• Habakkuk 3:16

  I heard, and my inward parts trembled; at the sound my lips quivered; rot enters into my bones, and beneath me I tremble, that I may rest on the day of distress, when the one who attacks it comes up against the people.

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