Storm
שְׂעָרָהStrong’s H8183searah (se-a-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Searah is the Hebrew word usually translated “storm”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.”
Meaning
- Storm
How it's translated
- with a storm 1
- and in storm 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Nahum 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂעָרָה searah · storm
storm
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “storm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STORM, noun
[G., to disturb. Latin The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.[
- A violent wind; a tempest.
- A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.
- Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.
- Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.
All definitions and other forms of “storm”
- Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.
STORM, verb transitive
To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
STORM, verb intransitive
- To raise a tempest.
- To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.
- To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume.
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.