Zechariah 14:5:10Zech.14.5.W10TAB

הָרַ֔עַשׁ

haraash

the shaking or the earthquake

Transliteration
ha-RA-ash
Extended
haa-RAH-ahsh
IPA
/haːˈra.ʕaʃ/

Meaning by language

English
the shaking or the earthquake

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הָ + רַ֔ + עַשׁ
ha + ra + ash
haraash

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-RA-ash

  2. phraseyour reading level

    mi-pe-NE ha-RA-ash

  3. clause

    ve-nas-TEM ge-HA-rai ki-ya-GI-a ge-ha-RIM el-a-TSAL ve-nas-TEM ka-a-SHER nas-TEM mi-pe-NE ha-RA-ash bi-me u-zi-YA ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA

  4. sentence

    ve-nas-TEM ge-HA-rai ki-ya-GI-a ge-ha-RIM el-a-TSAL ve-nas-TEM ka-a-SHER nas-TEM mi-pe-NE ha-RA-ash bi-me u-zi-YA ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA u-VA ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAI kol-ke-do-SHIM i-MAKH

Exegesis

The parallelism wenastem kaasher nastem {וְנַסְתֶּ֗ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר נַסְתֶּם֙ | wə-nas-tem ka-ʾă-šer nās-tem} ‘you will flee as you fled’ recalls minpnei haraash {מִפְּנֵ֣י הָרַ֔עַשׁ | min-pə-nêy hā-ra-ʿaš} ‘from before the earthquake,’ creating a historical typology linked to Uzziah’s reign (bimei uzziah melekyehudah).

Root and etymology

r-ʿ-shr-ʿ-sh

quake, shake

In contextZechariah 14:5

And you will flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal. And you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.

About this coordinate

Zechariah 14:5:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Zechariah 14:5, so the Hebrew word הָרַ֔עַשׁ (haraash) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Zech.14.5.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Zech.14.5.W10.S1) and character.