To rage
סָעַרStrong’s H5590saar (sa-ar)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saar is the Hebrew word usually translated “storming”, “it was enraged” and “it is storm tossed”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.”
Meaning
- To storm, rage(Qal) · (Niphal) to be enraged · (Piel) to storm away · (Pual) to be driven by storm
How it's translated
- and storming 2
- and it was enraged 1
- it is storm tossed 1
- it is storm-driven 1
- they storm 1
- and i will storm away them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jonah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Habakkuk 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 6:11Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
- Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
- Jonah 1:11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
- Jonah 1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
- Habakkuk 3:14Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Hebrew dictionary
סָעַר saar · to rage
1) to storm, rage 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to storm 1a2) stormy, growing storm (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be enraged 1c) (Piel) to storm away 1d) (Pual) to be driven by storm
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.