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Ezekiel 38:20

“So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

רָעַשׁrâʻash · raw-ash
H7493 · Hebrew
Definition
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
make afraid, (re-) move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • רָעֲשׁ֣וּ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
Code HC/Vqq3cp
Usage
Occurs 30 times in the Hebrew Bible.Judges 5:42 Samuel 22:8Job 39:20Psalms 18:8Psalms 46:4

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read רָעַשׁ here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.