za.ram describes flooding or an overwhelming rush, shown in a storm scene and in sweeping people away.

The attested use describes a flooding or overwhelming sweep: Psalm 90:5 presents people being carried away, while Psalm 77:18 places the other form within a scene of thunder, lightning, and a shaking earth.

1. Flooding or overwhelming sweep · dominant

   In Psalm 90:5, the Qal perfect form occurs in the clause that the APB renders "You flood them away," followed by their becoming like sleep and passing grass. In Psalm 77:18, the Poel perfect plural form stands in the storm scene that the APB renders with thunder in the whirlwind, lightning, and the earth trembling; its precise English counterpart is not isolated by the translation.

   Psalm 90:5Psalm 77:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the clause in Psalm 90:5 as "You flood them away." In Psalm 77:18 it presents the surrounding storm imagery without an identifiable word-for-word rendering of the term.