רֹ֫גֶז
turmoil
also: agitation, excitement, raging, trouble fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 5 times (71%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (29%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7267 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 5 verses
- Job 3:17 רֹ֑גֶז n c ms There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
- Job 3:26 רֹֽגֶז n c ms I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes."
- Job 14:1 רֹֽגֶז n c ms "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 37:2 בְּ/רֹ֣גֶז prep + n c ms cs Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, The sound that goes out of his mouth.
- Job 39:24 וְ֭/רֹגֶז conj + n c ms He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, Neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Isaiah 1 verse
Habakkuk 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“turmoil” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun רגז (rôgez). It clusters heavily in Job, which alone accounts for 71% of its uses. With 7 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Job 3:17. Not a single-sense word, it carries 3 senses, among them “agitation”, “excitement”, and “raging”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7267 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 71%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Trouble 2×
- American Standard Version: Trouble 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Trouble 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Trouble 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7267 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7267 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7267 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7267 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- agitation, excitement, raging, trouble, turmoil, trembling
- turmoil, disquiet, raging
- trembling, trepidation
Word origin
n.m.Jb 3:26 agitation, excitement, raging;—ר׳ abs. Hb 3:2 +, cstr. Jb 37:2; sf. רָגְזֶ֑ךָ Is 14:3;—raging Jb 3:17; disquiet, turmoil Is 14:3 Jb 3:26; 14:1; raging, wrath Hb 3:2; ר׳ קֹלוֹ Jb 37:2 rumbling of his voice (i.e. thunder); of excitement of warhorse, בְּרַעַשׁ וְרֹגֶז 39:24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רגז (râgaz) (H7264) — to tremble.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
רָגַז
- to be unsteady, restless; to be agitated. Taan. 10ᵇ (ref. to Gen. XLV, 24) שמא תִרְגּוֹז עליכם הדרך lest the road become unsteady for you (you lose your way); Yalk. Gen. 152 תִרְגַּז. e.g. Genesis 45:24
- 1. to stir, excite, incite to anger. Ruth R. end אַרְגֵּיו יצרך (= הַרְגֵּיז), v. כָּעַס; Midr. Till. to Ps. IV, 5; Yalk. ib. 627; Pesik. Shub., p. 158ᵃ. Midr. Till. l. c. עד מתי … ומַרְגִּיזִין וכ׳ how long will you sin and create anger by saying &c.?; Yalk. l. c. ומְרַגְּזִים (v. infra). Ber. 5ᵃ (ref. to Ps. l. c.) לעולם יַרְגִּיז וכ׳ at all times let man stir up his good inclination against his evil inclination. B. Bath. 16ᵃ יורד … ומַרְגִּיז וכ׳ Satan comes down and leads (men) astray, and goes up and arouses (the Lord’s) anger, takes permission and takes life. Tanḥ. Emor 2 לא היה לך להַרְגִּיז לבוראך וכ׳ hadst thou no other means to provoke thy Creator to anger than through me, making me an object of worship?; Lev. R. s. 26. Esth. R. to IV, 15 וידע המרגיז וכ׳ and let this provoker (Haman) know that thou hast not forgotten &c.; a. e.
- 2. to be excited, fear. Tanḥ. l. c. הייתי מרגיז שמא וכ׳ I (Samuel) was frightened, lest it be the judgment day, and I feared myself.
- to be excited; to quarrel. Nidd. 16ᵇ שר הנִרְגָּז (בבית המשתאות) a chief officer (or scholar) that gets excited in the drinking house (a variant to הנרגן), v. רָגַל a. רָגַן.
- to rage. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 9 התחילו מְרַגְּזִין they began to rage. Yalk. Ps. l. c., v. supra.
- same. Mekh. l. c. מִתְרַגְּזִין; Yalk. Ex. 251.
רְגַז I
- , to tremble; to be agitated, angry. Targ. Ps. LXXVII, 19. Targ. II Sam. XIX, 1. Targ. O. Gen. XL, 2. Targ. Ps. II, 12; a. fr.—Part. רָגֵיז. Targ. Zech. I, 15; a. e.
- to be shaken; to be excited. Targ. Ps. LXXVII, 17. Targ. Y. Ex. XV, 14.
- 1. to shake; to excite; to scandalize, make angry. Targ. Job IX, 6. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 8. Targ. O. a. Y. I Deut. XXXII, 21. Targ. Is. III, 16 (h. text תעכסנה!); a. fr.—Esp. to blaspheme. Targ. O. Lev. XXIV, 11. Targ. Prov. XXII, 14; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:21
- 2. to be angry. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 62 (h. text התעבר).—[Midr. Till. to Ps. XXV, 4 מרגזין, read: מזגין, v. מְזַג.]
רֹגֶז
- , v. רוֹגֶז
רְגַז II
- (preced.) anger, wrath. Targ. Deut. IX, 20. Ib. XXIX, 27; a. e.
רַגָּז
- preced. wds.) trembling, fearful. Cant. R. to VIII, 9 (ref. to Lev. XXVIII, 65) שמה לב ר׳ וכ׳ there (in Babylonian captivity) a fearful heart, but &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H7267 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רֹֽגֶז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 3:26 | 2 |
| בְּ/רֹ֖גֶז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Habakkuk 3:2 | 1 |
| בְּ/רֹ֣גֶז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 37:2 | 1 |
| וְ֭/רֹגֶז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 39:24 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵ/רָגְזֶ֑/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 14:3 | 1 |
| רֹ֑גֶז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 3:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7267, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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