רָנַן
to shout
‘to shout’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘in joy’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
- Hithpolel
- The reflexive counterpart of the Polel.
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7442 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Chronicles
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.
“to shout” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb רנן (rânan). Translators differ — “sing” in the King James Version, then “shout for joy” (Berean Standard Bible) and “shout joyfully” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 53 verses across 11 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Psalms, which alone accounts for 47% of its uses. Read the stem: it spans 4 stems, including Qal and Piel. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7442 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 →
- 53
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #709
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 709 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 53 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 53 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 32 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 19 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 4%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Sing 11×, Rejoice 5×, Shall sing 2×
- American Standard Version†: Sing 10×, Sing for joy 5×, Rejoice 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Shout for joy 9×, Sing for joy 6×, Sing 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Shout joyfully 7×, Let 4×, Shout for joy 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7442 across 52† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 28 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 H7442 across 50† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 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 H7442 across 53† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7442 across 62† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
רנן I overcome (cf. Arabic رَانَ (ى), c. على or ب pers., overcome, e.g. of wine)
רנן II give a ringing cry (onomatop.? cf. Arabic رَنَّ cry aloud, also twang (of bowstring)
Qal
- Impf. 3 ms. יָרוּן (Ges§ 67 q) Pr 29:6 (but read perhaps יָרוּץ, Pinsk Toy, v. רוּץ 2); 3 fs. תָּרֹן Is 35:6; 3 mpl. יָרֹ֫נּוּ 24:14 +, וַיָּר׳ Lv 9:24; 3 fpl. תָּדֹ֫נָּה Pr 1:20; 8:3; Imv. fs. רָנִּי Is 54:1 +, רֹ֫נִּי 12:6; mpl. רָנּוּ Je 31:7 +; Inf. cstr. בְּרָן־ Jb 38:7;—give a ringing cry: e.g. Proverbs 29:6
- 1. in joy, exultation, ‖ צָהַל Je 31:7 (ר׳ שׂמְחָה), Is 12:6; 24:14 (‖ נָשָׂא קוֹל), 54:1 (+ פָּצַח רִנָּה); ‖ הֵרִיעַ Zp 3:14 (+ שׂמח, עלז), Is 44:23; Jb 38:7; ‖ שָׂמַח Zc 2:14 ψ 35:27 Pr 29:6 (v. supr.); ‖ גִּיל Is 49:13 (+ הֵרִים רִנָּה), ‖ צָוַח 42:11; opp. צָעַק (cry in distress) 65:14 (מִן of cause); Lv 9:24; Is 35:6 (subj. לָשׁוֹן).—Is 61:7 is corrupt; read perhaps וָרֹק and spitting, Klo CheHpt. e.g. Jeremiah 31:7
- 2. in distress, La 2:19. e.g. Lamentations 2:19
- 3. cry aloud, in summons, exhortation (of wisdom) Pr 1:20 (‖ נָתַן קוֹל). 8:3. e.g. Proverbs 1:20
Piel
- Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְרִנְּנוּ Je 31:12; 51:48; Impf. 3 fs. תְּרַנֵּן ψ 51:16, 3 mpl. יְרַנְּנוּ 84:3 +, יְרַנֵּנ֑וּ 5:12 +; 3 fpl. תְּרַנֵּ֫נָּה 71:23 (van d. H. תְּרַנֵּנָה), etc.; Imv. mpl. רַנְּנוּ Is 52:9 +; Inf. abs. רַנֵּן ψ 132:16, cstr. id. Is 35:2;—give a ringing cry, in joy, exultation, especially in praise to י׳, Je 31:12; 51:48; Is 26:19; 35:2 (+ גִּילַת, v. גִּילַה), 52:8 (‖ נָשָׂא קוֹל), v 9 (+ פָּצַח); elsewhere only ψψ: ψ 5:12 (‖ שָׂמַח, עָלַץ), 67:5; 90:14; 95:5 (c. ב rei; all ‖ ש׳ alone); 149:5 (‖ עָלַז); 98:4 (‖ הֵרִיעַ; + פָּצַח, זִמֵּר), 132:9; 145:7, רַנֵּן יְרַנֵּנ֑וּ 132:16; c. acc. of theme 51:16; 59:17 (‖ שִׁיר); בי׳ 33:1; ב rei 20:6; 63:8; 89:13; c. לי׳ 95:1 (‖ הֵרִיעַ), אֶל־אֵל 84:3, (מִ)לפני י׳ 96:12 (‖ עָלַז) = 1 Ch 16:33 (‖ עָלַץ), ψ 98:8; subj. שְׂפָתַיִם 71:23 (‖ זִמֵּר). e.g. Jeremiah 31:12
Pual
- Impf. 3 ms. impers. לֹא יְרֻנָּן Is 16:10 no ringing cry shall be given (‖ יְרֹעָ֑ע). e.g. Isaiah 16:10
Hiphil
- Impf. cause to ring out for joy, 1 s. לֵב אַלְמָנָה אַרְנִן Jb 29:13; 2 ms. מוֹצָאֵי בֹקֶר וָעֶרֶב תַּרְנִין ψ 65:9; Imv. mpl. הַרְנִינוּ ring out a cry of Joy ψ 32:11 (‖ שׂמח, גיל), לי׳ 81:2 (‖ הריע); c. acc. of theme, עַמּוֹ Dt 32:43 (v. Dr; cf. Pi.).—Hithpō. ψ 78:65 v. רון. e.g. Job 29:13
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. vb. overcome (cf. Arabic رَانَ (ى), c. على or ب pers., overcome, e.g. of wine);—assumed in Heb. by Thes (after 𝔊) and most mod. to explain Hithpōʿ. Pt. כְּגִבּוֹר מִמְרוֹנֵן מִיָּ֑יִן ψ 78:65 like a hero overcome by wine (cf. ‖ v a); AV RV De Che al. shout (√ רנן), cf. 𝔗; so Hup-Now, with altern. conj. מִתְעוֹרֵר, and this sense more suitable (cf. Luzzatto Il Pentateuco iii (1874), 162 (Lv 21, 7) Perles 79).—Pr 29:6 v. רנן, רוץ.
I. vb. give a ringing cry (onomatop.? cf. Arabic رَنَّ cry aloud, also twang (of bowstring); NH Pi. murmur, complain, cf. J.Aram (not 𝔗));—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
רָנַן
- (b. h.) [to whiz, hum,]
- 1. to murmur, v. רוֹנָן.
- 2. to rejoice. Ab. Zar. 24ᵇ רוֹנִּי וכ׳ rejoice, O holy ark, v. רוּם I h.
- same,
- 1. to murmur, complain. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top עד שרִינְּנוּ כל העם until all the people murmured (became rebellious); Bab. Ber. 27ᵇ שרננו; Y. Taan. IV, 67ᵈ שריננו בו; Bekh. 36ᵃ. Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ מְרַנְּנִים אחריו, v. סְפִיקוּלָא I. Num. R. s. 127 כל … לא היתה מְרַנֶּנֶת as long as she was engaged in making the purple cloak, she did not grumble; Pesik. R. s. 5 מרנונית (corr. acc.; Tanḥ. Naso 12 מריבה). Num. R. l. c.; Pesik. R. l. c. ווי … וִירַּנְּנוּ כשם שהיו מרננים woe, (I am afraid,) lest they will again murmur as they were wont to do. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXIII (ref. to Cant. IV, 11) בין משבחת בין מרננת אל תמנעי וכ׳ whether praising or complaining, refrain not thy voice, for ‘thy voice is sweet’; a. fr. e.g. Song of Solomon 4:11
- 2. to sing, praise. Ib. הכל מרננים צדיקים מרננים וכ׳ all give praise (to God), the righteous give praise, and the wicked give praise; אבל אין הרשעים מרננין וכ׳ but the wicked praise not until he brings plagues upon them &c. Ib. הכל מרננין לפניו וכ׳ all sing before Him, heaven and earth sing &c.; a. fr.
רְנַן
- 1. to think, meditate. Targ. Prov. XV, 28, v. רְנֵי. Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 30; a. e.
- 2. to murmur. Targ. I Sam. II, 24 דרַנְנִין (ed. Lag. דדננין, Var. דר׳, דמְרַנְּנִין).
- 1. to think, meditate. Targ. Ps. I, 2. Ib. XXXIX, 4 ברַנְּנִי Ms. (ed. ברִנְנִי, ברִי׳, v. next w.); a. e.
- 2. to murmur. Targ. I Sam. l. c., v. supra.—Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᶜ top והוו … מְרַנְּנִין ביה and the scholars murmured against him (considered his conduct unbecoming). Yeb. 34ᵇ קא מְרַנְּנֵי … אבתרך the scholars speak ill of thee; a. e.
- 3. to sing, rejoice. Targ. Ps. XIII, 5, sq. Ib. XIV, 7; a. fr.
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 43 distinct written forms H7442 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7442, 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.
Derived from this word
- רן rôn H7438 ringing cry
- רנה rinnâh H7440 cry
- רנן renen H7443 ostrich
- רנן rannên H7444 shout
- רננה rᵉnânâh H7445 ringing cry
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 45 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 53 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 9:24
- Deuteronomy 32:43
- 1 Chronicles 16:33
- Job 29:13
- Psalms 5:11
- Proverbs 1:20
- Isaiah 12:6
- Jeremiah 31:7
- Lamentations 2:19
- Zephaniah 3:14
- Zechariah 2:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
