רָעַשׁ râʻash — to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc
Translated in the KJV as make afraid, move, quake, shake, tremble.
a primitive root; to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust).
râʻash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Perfect (qatal) 6Wayyiqtol 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Participle (active) 1
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.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
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;
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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 ›