Rage
חֱמָאStrong’s H2534chema (che-ma)
Appears in 118 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chema is the Hebrew word usually translated “rage my”, “rage” and “anger of”. It appears in 118 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.”
Meaning
- Anger, rage
How it's translated
- rage my 24
- rage 22
- anger of 10
- in rage 5
- and in rage 4
- venom of 4
- rage his 4
- rage your 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 30
- Jeremiah 16
- Psalms 13
- Isaiah 12
- Proverbs 9
- Esther 6
21 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:16In contextO LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
- Daniel 11:44In contextBut tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
- Zechariah 8:2In contextThus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
- Genesis 27:44And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
- Leviticus 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Numbers 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
All 118 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֱמָא chema · rage
anger, rage Aramaic of che.mah (חֵמָה "rage" H2534)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAGE, noun
[Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.]
- Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury.
- Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.
- Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.
- Enthusiasm; rapture.
All definitions and other forms of “rage”
- Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.
RAGE, verb intransitive
- To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
- To be violent and tumultuous.“Why do the heathen rage?” Psalms 2:1
- To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.
- To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.
- To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.
- To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]
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.