ge.a.rah denotes a rebuke that may correct a person or express divine force that makes opponents, waters, or heaven react.

The term most often occurs in descriptions of divine rebuke: waters flee or dry up, heaven trembles, and people face anger, flames, or flight. It also denotes corrective reproof in wisdom sayings, where a wise son receives it and an understanding person is more deeply affected by it than a fool.

1. Divine rebuke with overpowering effect · dominant

   Construct forms occur in scenes where divine rebuke is associated with decisive effects: in Psalm 104:7 the APB renders waters fleeing and hurrying away, while in Isaiah 50:2 it renders the sea drying up and rivers becoming wilderness. In Job 26:11 the pillars of heaven tremble, and Isaiah 66:15 places the rebuke amid fire, fury, and flames.

   2 Samuel 22:16Isaiah 50:2Isaiah 51:20Isaiah 66:15Job 26:11Psalm 104:7
2. Corrective reproof addressed to people · common

   In Ecclesiastes 7:5 the term occurs in the comparison between hearing a wise man's correction and hearing fools' song. Proverbs 13:1 contrasts a wise son who receives his father's discipline with a mocker who does not hear it, and Proverbs 17:10 says that such correction penetrates a person of understanding more deeply than repeated blows affect a fool.

   Ecclesiastes 7:5Proverbs 13:1Proverbs 13:8Proverbs 17:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB frequently uses “rebuke,” including in divine-action and wisdom contexts, but renders the clauses in Isaiah 30:17 with “threat.” In several supplied verses the surface form is present although the translation does not visibly supply a corresponding English word, so its wording cannot be read as a gloss of the term.