Word

רָעַם

râʻam · H7481 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences

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Meanings

to roar

The sound produced by turbulent waters; associated with joy and praise

Examples
1 Chronicles 16:32 Let the sea roar, and everything it contains; Let the field rejoice, and everything that is in it.
Psalm 96:11 May the heavens be joyful, and may the earth rejoice; May the sea roar, and all it contains;
Psalm 98:7 May the sea roar and all it contains, The world and those who dwell in it.
to thunder

Action by which deites speak with a loud and thundering voice, to show their glory and to frighten Israel's enemies

Examples
1 Samuel 2:10 “Those who contend with the LORD will be terrified; Against them He will thunder in the heavens, The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; And He will give strength to His king, And will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
1 Samuel 7:10 Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines advanced to battle Israel. But the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were struck down before Israel.
2 Samuel 22:14 “The LORD thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice.
to grieve

Causative action by which humans cause other humans to experience an emotion of grief

Examples
1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival, moreover, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.
to be downcast

Literally: (one's) face grieves; hence: state in which a person's facial expression communicates emotions of grief

Examples
Ezekiel 27:35 ‘All the inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid; They have a troubled look.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

13 occurrences in 11 groups

יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 3
יָםsea 3
מְלֹאgroup 3
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָher 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 6 groups

בin/on/with+ קוֹלvoice, sound 4
בin/on/with+ שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 2
כְּמוֹas, like+ וֹhim 1
מִןfrom+ שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 1
עַלon, upon, over, against+ פְּלִשְׁתִּיPhilistine 1
בin/on/with+ יוֹםday, time 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

שָׁאַג shâʼag · H7580 · to roar, to groan: Both denote loud, forceful sound. רָעַם (râʻam, H7481) covers thunder, roar and trouble, whereas the other word means to roar mightily.
נָהַם nâham · H5098 · to growl, to roar, to groan: Both lexemes are genuine sound-production verbs that share the specific sense "roar" (and related loud, rumbling sounds). They are distinct lemmas that overlap in meaning, making them true near-synonyms.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Sounds002004001009007: 1 Samuel 7:10 describes the LORD who "thundered with a great thunder," and 1 Chronicles 16:32 calls on "the sea" to "roar," directly attesting the sense of a loud, rumbling noise.
Speak002004001009008: 1 Samuel 2:10 and 2 Samuel 22:14 both describe the LORD who will "thunder" and has "uttered His voice" from heaven, attesting an idiom in which thunder conveys divine speech.
Grieve002001002013: 1 Samuel 1:6 describes Hannah's rival who would "provoke her bitterly to irritate her," directly attesting the sense of causing distress or vexation.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָעַםrâʻam · H7481רַעַם raʻam · H7482 · roaring, shouting, thundering · 6×רַעְמָה raʻmâh · H7483 · mane · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7481. raam [רָעַם] verb denominative thunder; — Qal make the sound of thunder, thunder:…

H7481. raam
[רָעַם] verb denominative thunder; —
Qal make the sound of thunder, thunder: Imperfect3masculine singular יִרְעַם let the sea thunder (in praise, || רנן כף, מחא הריע, עלז, גיל, שׂמה,) Psa 96:11 = 1Ch 16:32; Psa 98:7. — Perfect3plural מָּנִים רָעֲמוּ Eze 27:35 is dubious: faces tremble (Toy are convulsed), or they tremble (compare Hi-Sm Krae; AV RV are troubled) in face, lacks etymological support (otherwise Gerber47, but see √ above); ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Co מְּנֵיהֶם דָּֽמְעוּ.
Hiph`il (Gerbe47) thunder, cause thunder; — Perfect3masculine singular הִרְעִים Psa 29:3; Imperfect3masculine singular יַרְעֵם (on ֵ֯ see Köi. 210) Psa 18:14 +; וַיַּרְעֵם 1Sa 7:10; 1Sa 7:2masculine singular תַּרְעֵם Job 40:9; 1Sa 1:6 see below; — thunder, of ׳י (God) 1Sa 2:10; 1Sa 7:10 (both with עַל person againstwhom), Psa 18:14 = 2Sa 22:14; Psa 29:3; Job 37:4-5, compare Job 40:9. — הַרְּעִמָהּ 1Sa 1:6 is appear. Infinitive construct suffix (Ges§ 20h; 22s), but not understood by ᵐ5 and dubious: AV RV to make her fret, compare Aramaic utter (loud) complaints (Weir in DrSm 291); perhaps corrupt HPS.
רַעְמָא see II. רַעְמָה. below

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

Facial Expressions1 occurrence Grieve1 occurrence Sounds3 occurrences Speak8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0