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To thunder

רָעַםStrong’s H7481

raam (ra-am)

Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Raam is the Hebrew word usually translated “let it thunder”, “thunders” and “thundered”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

“And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.”
1 Samuel 1:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. To thunder(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • let it thunder 3
  • he thunders 3
  • and he thundered 2
  • to disconcert her 1
  • he will thunder 1
  • he thundered 1
  • will you thunder 1
  • they have been disconcerted 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 4
  • 1 Samuel 3
  • Job 3
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1
  • Ezekiel 1

6 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 13 verses, by book
1 Samuel 3
1:62:107:10
2 Samuel 1
22:14
1 Chronicles 1
16:32
Ezekiel 1
27:35
Hebrew dictionary

רָעַם raam · to thunder

1) to thunder 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to make the sound of thunder, thunder 1a2) to rage 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to thunder, cause thunder 1b2) to tremble, cause to tremble (by extension)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “thunder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

THUN'DER, noun

[Latin tonitru, from tono, to sound.]

  1. The sound which follows an explosion of electricity or lightning; the report of a discharge of electrical fluid, that is, of its passage from one cloud to another, or from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud.“There were thunders and lightnings” Exodus 19:16
  2. thunder is used for lightning, or for a thunderbolt, either originally through ignorance, or by way of metaphor, or because the lightning and thunder are closely united.
  3. Any loud noise; as the thunder of cannon.“Sons of thunder” Mark 3:17
  4. Denunciation published; as the thunders of the Vatican.
All definitions and other forms of “thunder”

    THUN'DER, verb intransitive

    To sound, rattle or roar, as an explosion of electricity.

    1. “Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?” Job 40:9
    2. To make a loud noise, particularly a heavy sound of some continuance.
    3. To rattle, or give a heavy rattling sound.

    THUN'DER, verb transitive

    To emit with noise and terror.

    1. To publish any denunciation or threat.

    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.