רָגַשׁ râgash — to be tumultuous
Translated in the KJV as rage.
a primitive root; to be tumultuous.
râgash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
רָגְשׁ֣וּ Ps 2:1 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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 ›