Thunder
רַ֫עַםStrong’s H7482raam (ra-am)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raam is the Hebrew word usually translated “thunder your”, “thunder of” and “thunder”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Meaning
- Thunder
How it's translated
- thunder your 2
- and thunder of 1
- thunder of 1
- thunder 1
- with thunder 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Job 2
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 39:25He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
- Psalms 77:18The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
- Psalms 81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
- Psalms 104:7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
- Isaiah 29:6Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Hebrew dictionary
רַ֫עַם raam · thunder
thunder
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.]
- 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
- 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.
- Any loud noise; as the thunder of cannon.“Sons of thunder” Mark 3:17
- 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.
- “Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?” Job 40:9
- To make a loud noise, particularly a heavy sound of some continuance.
- To rattle, or give a heavy rattling sound.
THUN'DER, verb transitive
To emit with noise and terror.
- 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.