רָעַם râʻam — to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated
Translated in the KJV as make to fret, roar, thunder, trouble.
a primitive root; to tumble, i.e. be violently agitated; specifically, to crash (of thunder); figuratively, to irritate (with anger).
râʻam in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive construct 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 1
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›