Bible word study

Raash (Strong’s H7493): Meaning in the Bible

Raash (רָעַשׁ) is the Hebrew word numbered H7493 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust). In the King James Bible it is translated make afraid, (re-) move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble..

• Original wordרָעַשׁ
• Transliterationrâʻash
• Pronunciationraw-ash
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH7493
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Raash appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Raash (H7493) stands behind 30 English renderings in 30 verses across 11 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (6), Jeremiah (6), Ezekiel (5).

How the King James Bible renders Raash, by count

• shake14 of 30 (47 percent)
• trembled5 of 30 (17 percent)
• tremble4 of 30 (13 percent)
• moved2 of 30 (7 percent)
• shook2 of 30 (7 percent)
• afraid1 of 30 (3 percent)

Three places to read Raash

• Judges 5:4 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.
• Isaiah 14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
• Ezekiel 27:28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

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 Raash 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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