turmoil
ro.gez names disturbing unrest that opposes rest and can mark agitated voice, action, or distress.
The attested uses chiefly describe distressing unrest in human experience, set against quiet, rest, or relief. Other verses place the noun with an agitated voice, quaking action, and an appeal for compassion amid turmoil.
Senses in use
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Distressing unrest opposed to rest · dominant
In Job 3:17 the APB renders a place where the wicked have ceased from turmoil and the weary find rest; in Job 3:26, after the speaker says he has not been quiet or rested, turmoil has come. Isaiah 14:3 places the construct form alongside pain and hard service, while Job 14:1 describes human life as full of trouble.
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Agitation in voice, action, or appeal · common
In Job 37:2 the construct form is associated with the voice and with sound issuing from the lips. Job 39:24 joins it to quaking as the subject swallows the earth, and Habakkuk 3:2 places it in the appeal, “In turmoil have compassion; remember.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the relevant clauses with “turmoil,” including Job 3:17, Job 3:26, Job 37:2, Job 39:24, Isaiah 14:3, and Habakkuk 3:2; Job 14:1 instead says “trouble.” This variation describes the English verse renderings rather than fixed equivalents.