ze.rem denotes a violent weather event or its force, encountered as something destructive or requiring refuge.

The occurrences portray a violent weather force, often set beside rain, hail, flooding water, wind, or drought and presented as destructive or as something from which shelter is needed. In Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 32:2, and Isaiah 4:6, it is the danger opposed by refuge; Isaiah 28:2 and Isaiah 30:30 place it within scenes of forceful devastation.

1. Violent weather force · dominant

   The noun names a threatening weather condition in clauses about protection: in Isaiah 25:4 the APB renders refuge from “the storm,” and in Isaiah 32:2 and Isaiah 4:6 it renders shelter from “the storm.” In Isaiah 28:2 and Isaiah 30:30, the same noun occurs amid hail, overflowing waters, fire, cloudburst, and tempest imagery; Habakkuk 3:10 places it in a scene where “a torrent of water passed.”

   Isaiah 25:4Isaiah 32:2Isaiah 4:6Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 30:30Habakkuk 3:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the weather imagery with “storm” in the refuge passages and with “hailstorm,” “tempest,” “cloudburst,” “torrent of water,” and mountain rains in other contexts. These varied English expressions show the verses’ imagery rather than fixed translations of the term.