Strong's Hebrew · H1607

גָּעַשׁ

gâʻash · gaw-ash'

move, shake, toss, trouble.

Definition

to agitate violently

Derivation

a primitive root

Appears 9 times in Scripture

Jeremiah 46:7

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

2 Samuel 22:8

Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Psalms 18:7

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

Jeremiah 46:8

Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’

Jeremiah 25:16

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Job 34:20

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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