STRONGS NUMBER H7297


Word Summary
rahah: be afraid
Original Word: רָהָה
Transliteration: rahah
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-haw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: be afraid
Meaning: be afraid
Strong's Concordance
be afraid

A primitive root; to fear -- be afraid.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7297. rahah

[יָרַהּ‎] verb only

Qal Imperfect3masculine plural תִּרְהוּIsaiah 44:8 (van d. H Baer, but probably ִתּרְהוּ‎ si vera lectio, so Thes); ? be stupefied (compare Arabic , Thes and others), but Frey fatuus et stolidus fuit; < Ew and others who read ִתּרְאוּ‎ from ירא‎ ("" פחד‎).

[רָהָה‎] verb dubious, apparently fear; —

Qal Imperfect2masculine plural וְאַלתִּֿרְהוּ אַלתִּֿפְתֲדוּIsaiah 44:8; Thes ִתּרְהוּ‎, but no √ ירהּ‎; Ew Brd BuhlLex 13 ִתּרְאוּ‎; (יָרֵאׅ‎; > Lag Gr CheHpt תִּרְהֲבוּ‎ (in Syriac sense).

I. רהט‎ (√ of following, probably collect, gather, compare Arabic 1, VIII. be collected, congregated, compare NöZA xii. 186; רָטַיָּא ᵑ7‎ = רְהָטִים‎, Genesis 30:38, 41; Exodus 2:16; Syriac is apparently conduit, also reservoir (?); Assyrian râ‰u, vessel for water, provisions, etc.).