STRONGS NUMBER H1607


Word Summary
gaash: to shake, quake
Original Word: גָּעַשׁ
Transliteration: gaash
Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-ash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to shake, quake
Meaning: to agitate violently
Strong's Concordance
move, shake, toss, trouble

A primitive root to agitate violently -- move, shake, toss, trouble.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1607. gaash

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

Qal Imperfect וַתִּגְעַשׁPsalm 18:8 a = 2 Samuel 22:8 a Kt (Qr Hithpa`el); — quake of earth at theoph., Psalm 18:8 = 2 Samuel 22:8 (read Kt; "" רעשׁ‎).

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

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

Hithpo`el Perfect וְהִתְגֹּעֲשׁוּ‎ consecutive Jeremiah 25:16; Imperfect יִתְגֹּעֲשׁוּ46:8; id. of waters of Nile 46:8; of drunken men, reel to and fro, 25:16 (figurative of nations confounded by ׳י‎).