Strong's Lexicon

H1607

H1607 — גָּעַשׁ

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewga`ashverb-stemOccurrences: 8TWOT: 371

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H1607
Word:	גָּעַשׁ
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root to agitate violently
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	8
Transliteration:	ga`ash
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	gaw-ash'
Meaning:	1. move, shake, toss, trouble
KJV Renderings:	Not listed

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[גָּעַשׁ] verb shake, quake (Late Hebrew id.) —

Qal Imperfect וַתִּגְעַשׁ Ps 18:8 a = 2Sam 22:8 a Kt ( Qr Hithpa`el); — quake of earth at theoph., Ps 18:8 = 2Sam 22:8 (read Kt ; || רעשׁ).

Pu`al Imperfect be shaken up, convulsed יְגֹעֲשׁוּעַֿם Job 34:20 a people are convulsed.

Hithpa`el shake back and forth, toss or reel to and fro וַיִּתְגָּעַשׁ Qr 2Sam 22:8 a (< Kt Qal); יִתְגָָּֽעֲשׁוּ Jer 46:7 , וַיִּתְגָָּֽעֲשׁוּ Ps 18:8 b + 2 t.; — of mountains Ps 18:8b = 2Sam 22:8 b; of waves of sea, Jer 5:22 of waters of Nile Jer 46:7 (compare Jer 46:8).

Hithpo`el Perfect וְהִתְגֹּעֲשׁוּ consecutive Jer 25:16 Imperfect יִתְגֹּעֲשׁוּ Jer 46:8 id. of waters of Nile Jer 46:8 of drunken men, reel to and fro, Jer 25:16 (figurative of nations confounded by ׳ י).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

געש (gah-gash’)

Psalms 16:7

KJV: I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

EHCC: (8). Then the earth shook

Job 84:90

EHCC: the people shall be troubled

Job 280:22

EHCC: 8. Then the earth shook

Psalms 18:7

KJV: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

EHCC: (8).the hills moved and were shaken,

Jeremiah 5:22

KJV: Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

EHCC: and though the waves thereof toss them-

Jeremiah 46:7

KJV: Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

EHCC: whose waters are moved

Jeremiah 25:16

KJV: And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

EHCC: they shall drink, and be moved,

Jeremiah 46:8

KJV: Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

EHCC: waters are moved like the rivers ;