Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
tempest
Usage: tempest Another spelling of se.a.rah (סְעָרָה "tempest" H5591B)
Caar means “tempest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5591 — psychikos (“natural”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5591 סַעַר סְעָרָה (ca`ar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ca`ar (sah'-ar) (or (feminine) ctarah {seh-aw-raw'}) n-e. 1. a hurricane [from H5590] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include whirlwind, storm, tempest, and whirlwinds. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ca`ar (sah'-ar) (or (feminine) ctarah {seh-aw-raw'}) n-e. 1. a hurricane [from H5590] KJV: storm(-y), tempest, whirlwind. Root(s): H5590
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tempest
Usage: tempest Another spelling of se.a.rah (סְעָרָה "tempest" H5591B)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ca`ar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5591.
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5591, grouped by book.
Caar (Strong's H5591) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "tempest". ca`ar (sah'-ar) (or (feminine) ctarah {seh-aw-raw'}) n-e. 1. a hurricane [from H5590]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H5591 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5591 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as whirlwind, storm, tempest, and whirlwinds. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.