Ragaz means “be afraid” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7264 רָגַז (ragaz) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ragaz (raw-gaz') v. 1. to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear) [a primitive root] It has 40 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include fear, afraid, disquieted, any, and anger. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ragaz (raw-gaz') v. 1. to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear) [a primitive root] KJV: be afraid, stand in awe, disquiet, fall out, fret, move, provoke, quake, rage, shake, tremble, trouble, be wroth.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7264. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to tremble
Usage: 1) tremble, quake, rage, quiver, be agitated, be excited, be perturbed 1a)(Qal) to quake, be disquieted, be excited, be perturbed 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to quake, disquiet, enrage, disturb 1c) (Hithpael) to excite oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ragaz, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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40 indexed usages in Old Testament.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
First 40 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7264.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7264, grouped by book.
Ragaz (Strong's H7264) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be afraid". ragaz (raw-gaz') v. 1. to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 40 linked usages for Strong's H7264 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7264 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fear, afraid, disquieted, any, anger, and stand. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
