Words the Bible translates as shake
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 16 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- saleuōσαλεύωto shake: to make something move back and forth, totter, or lose its firm footing.
- kineōκινέωto move something out of the position it holds: to budge it, shake it, carry it off, or set a crowd going.
- seiōσείωto shakenot studied yet
- nu'aנוּעַto move unsteadily: to shake or quiver in place, to reel, or to roam with no settled place to rest.
- motמוֹטto give way, to totter or slip out of a firm, fixed place; and so, of a person, to be shaken or brought down.
- nuphנוּףto move something back and forth through the air: to wave, swing, wield, or brandish it.
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- to sprinkle or scent something with fragrance: to perfume it.
- ra'ashרָעַשׁto shake or quake: to move with a violent, shuddering motion, the way the ground heaves in an earthquake
- na'arנָעַרto shake something so that whatever is clinging to it comes loose and is thrown away
- ga'ashגָּעַשׁto heave and lurch: to be thrown into violent rocking motion, the way ground bucks in an earthquake or water churns in a flood
- natarנָתַרto leap or spring: to jump off the ground, or to jolt suddenly, and so to make something else jump
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- to loosen or untie what holds something fast, and so to let a person or thing go free
- ma'adמָעַדto slip: to lose one's footing, so that what was holding a person up gives way
- raḥaphרָחַףto tremble: to shake with dread, said of a body or its bones
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- to hover: to hold a place in the air above something, wings working, without moving on
- sainōσαίνωto shakenot studied yet
- mudמוּדto shakenot studied yet
- nutנוּטto shakenot studied yet
- amadעָמַדto shakenot studied yet
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