Storm
זֶ֫רֶםStrong’s H2230zerem (ze-rem)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zerem is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a storm of”, “from rain of” and “from storm”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.”
Meaning
- Rain-shower, thunderstorm, flood of rain, downpour, rain-storm
How it's translated
- like a storm of 2
- from rain of 1
- from storm 1
- from rainstorm 1
- like a rainstorm of 1
- and a rainstorm 1
- a rainstorm 1
- a downpour of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Job 1
- Habakkuk 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 4:6And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 25:4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
- Isaiah 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
- Isaiah 30:30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
- Isaiah 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
- Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Hebrew dictionary
זֶ֫רֶם zerem · storm
rain-shower, thunderstorm, flood of rain, downpour, rain-storm
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “storm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STORM, noun
[G., to disturb. Latin The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.[
- A violent wind; a tempest.
- A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.
- Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.
- Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.
All definitions and other forms of “storm”
- Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.
STORM, verb transitive
To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
STORM, verb intransitive
- To raise a tempest.
- To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.
- To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.