Bible word study

Raga (Strong’s H7280): Meaning in the Bible

Raga (רָגַע) is the Hebrew word numbered H7280 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to toss violently and suddenly (the sea with waves, the skin with boils); figuratively (in a favorable manner) to settle, i.e. quiet; specifically, to wink (from the motion of the eye-lids). In the King James Bible it is translated break, divide, find ease, be a moment, (cause.

• Original wordרָגַע
• Transliterationrâgaʻ
• Pronunciationraw-gah'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH7280
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Raga appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Raga (H7280) stands behind 13 English renderings in 13 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (6), Isaiah (3), Job (2).

How the King James Bible renders Raga, by count

• rest5 of 13 (38 percent)
• divideth2 of 13 (15 percent)
• suddenly2 of 13 (15 percent)
• broken1 of 13 (8 percent)
• divided1 of 13 (8 percent)
• ease1 of 13 (8 percent)

Three places to read Raga

• Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
• Isaiah 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
• Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Raga in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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