To shake
רָעַשׁStrong’s H7493raash (ra-ash)
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raash is the Hebrew word usually translated “it quaked”, “shake” and “about to shake”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.”
Meaning
- To quake, shake(Qal) to quake, shake · (Niphal) to be made to quake · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and it quaked 3
- they will shake 2
- and they will shake 2
- about to shake 2
- it shook 1
- do you make leap it 1
- you have made quake 1
- it quaked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Jeremiah 6
- Ezekiel 5
- Isaiah 3
- Haggai 3
- Joel 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:8Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
- Job 39:20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
- Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
- Psalms 46:3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- Psalms 60:2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
- Psalms 68:8The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Hebrew dictionary
רָעַשׁ raash · to shake
1) to quake, shake 1a) (Qal) to quake, shake 1b) (Niphal) to be made to quake 1c)(Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to quake 1c2) to cause to spring or leap (of horse)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHAKE, verb transitive
preterit tense shook; participle passive shaken.
- To cause to move with quick vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to agitate; as, the wind shakes a tree; an earthquake shakes the hills or the earth.“I shook my lap, and said, so God shake out every man from his house-” Nehemiah 5:13“-As a fig casteth her untimely fruit, when it is shaken of a mighty wind” Revelation 6:13
- To make to totter or tremble.
- To cause to shiver; as, an ague shakes the whole frame.
- To throw down by a violent motion.
All definitions and other forms of “shake”
- To throw away; to drive off.
- To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to endanger; to threaten to overthrow.
- To cause to waver or doubt; to impair the resolution of; to depress the courage of.“That ye be not soon shaken in mind” 2 Thessalonians 2:2
- To trill; as, to shake a note in music.
SHAKE, verb intransitive
- To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; as, the tree shakes with the wind; the house shakes in a tempest.“The foundations of the earth do shake” Isaiah 24:18
- To tremble; to shiver; to quake; as, a man shakes in an ague; or he shakes with cold, or with terror.
- To totter.
SHAKE, noun
- Concussion; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and the other; agitation.
- A trembling or shivering; agitation.
- A motion of hands clasped.
- In music, a trill; a rapid reiteration of two notes comprehending an interval not greater than one whole tone, nor less than a semitone.
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.