Aramaic word · H7266
רְגַז
birgaz
rage
Agitation, violent disturbance, rage. The root rgz means to shake, quake or tremble, from fear, grief or anger. In Aramaic the causative form of the verb means "to provoke to anger" (Ezra 5:12, "our fathers provoked the God of heaven").
A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?
Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·
What it means
rage
Aramaic of ra.gaz (רָגַז "to tremble" H7264)
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
Agitation, violent disturbance, rage. The root rgz means to shake, quake or tremble, from fear, grief or anger. In Aramaic the causative form of the verb means "to provoke to anger" (Ezra 5:12, "our fathers provoked the God of heaven").
- Against the English
"Rage" (KJV, WEB, BSB) or "anger" (YLT) are accurate. English loses the physical picture of a body shaking or seething that the root carries.
- Used elsewhere in the period
In biblical Aramaic the noun occurs only here. Its Hebrew relative rōgez means turmoil or agitation (Job 3:17, 26; 14:1) and also wrath (Hab 3:2, "in wrath remember mercy"). The Hebrew verb rāgaz is used of the earth quaking (1 Sam 14:15) and of nations trembling (Exod 15:14). Later Jewish Aramaic uses rgz regularly for anger.
Where it appears
Daniel · 1
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Daniel 3:13 בִּרְגַ֣ז in rage
Then Nebuchadnezzar, furious with rage, summoned Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king,
Here: "In agitation, in rage." The root means to shake or tremble, so the picture is a man shaking with anger. It occurs only here in biblical Aramaic.
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