Judges 16:20
And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
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Shake
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Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
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רָעַשׁ
râʻash · raw-ash
14 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), particularly through fear; specifically, to spring (as a locust)
Strong's KJV usage: make afraid, (re-) move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.
Strong's first: Psalms 46:3Strong's last: Haggai 2:21
Open full H7493 profile →נוּף
nûwph · noof
5 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
Strong's first: Isaiah 10:15Strong's last: Zechariah 2:9
Open full H5130 profile →ἐκτινάσσω
ektinássō · ek-tin-as'-so
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to shake violently
Strong's KJV usage: :--shake (off).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:14Strong's last: Mark 6:11
Open full G1621 profile →σείω
seíō · si'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to rock (vibrate, properly, sideways or to and fro), i.e. (generally) to agitate (in any direction; cause to tremble); figuratively, to throw into a tremor (of fear or concern)
Strong's KJV usage: :--move, quake, shake.
Strong's first: Matthew 28:4Strong's last: Hebrews 12:26
Open full G4579 profile →נוּעַ
nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Strong's KJV usage: continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 16:4Strong's last: Psalms 22:7
Open full H5128 profile →נָעַר
nâʻar · naw-ar'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to tumble about
Strong's KJV usage: shake (off, out, self), overthrow, toss up and down.
Strong's first: Judges 16:20Strong's last: Isaiah 52:2
Open full H5287 profile →ἀποτινάσσω
apotinássō · ap-ot-in-as'-so
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to brush off
Strong's KJV usage: :--shake off.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 9:5Strong's last: Luke 9:5
Open full G660 profile →σαλεύω
saleúō · sal-yoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to waver, i.e. agitate, rock, topple or (by implication) destroy; figuratively, to disturb, incite
Strong's KJV usage: :--move, shake (together), which can(-not) be shaken, stir up.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 6:48Strong's last: Luke 6:48
Open full G4531 profile →מָעַד
mâʻad · maw-ad'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to waver
Strong's KJV usage: make to shake, slide, slip.
Strong's first: Psalms 69:23Strong's last: Psalms 69:23
Open full H4571 profile →פָּחַד
pâchad · paw-kkad'
1 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to be startled (by a sudden alarm); hence, to fear in general
Strong's KJV usage: be afraid, stand in awe, (be in) fear, make to shake.
Strong's first: Job 4:14Strong's last: Job 4:14
Open full H6342 profile →רָגַז
râgaz · raw-gaz'
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
Strong's KJV usage: be afraid, stand in awe, disquiet, fall out, fret, move, provoke, quake, rage, shake, tremble, trouble, be wroth.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 13:13Strong's last: Isaiah 13:13
Open full H7264 profile →רָחַף
râchaph · raw-khaf'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to brood; by implication, to be relaxed
Strong's KJV usage: flutter, move, shake.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 23:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:9
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H7493
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
H7493
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
H7493
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
H7493
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
H7493
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
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shake
SHAKE, verb transitive preterit tense shook; participle passive shaken.
1. To cause to move with quick vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to agitate; as, the wind shakes a tree; an earthquake shakes the hills or the earth.
I shook my lap, and said, so God shake out every man from his house-
Nehemiah 5:13
He shook the sacred honors of his head. Dryden.
-As a fig casteth her untimely fruit, when it is shaken of a mighty wind.
Revelation 6:1.
2. To make to totter or tremble.
The rapid wheels shake the heav'n's basis. Milton.
3. To cause to shiver; as, an ague shakes the whole frame.
4. To throw down by a violent motion.
Macbeth is ripe for shaking. Shak.
[But see shake off, which is generally used.]
5. To throw away; to drive off.
'Tis our first intent
To shake all cares and business from our age. [See Shake off.] Shak.
6. To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to endanger; to threaten to overthrow. Nothing should shake our belief in the being and perfections of God, and in our own accountableness.
7. To cause to waver or doubt; to impair the resolution of; to depress the courage of.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind. 2 Thessalonians 2:1.
8. To trill; as, to shake a note in music.
To shake hands, sometimes, to unite with; to aggree or contract with; more generally, to take leave of, from the practice of shaking hands at meeting and parting.
To shake off, to drive off; to throw off or down by violence; as, to shake off the dust of the feet; also, to rid one's self; to free from; to divest of; as, to shake off disease or grief; to shake off troublesome dependents.
SHAKE, verb intransitive
1. To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; as, the tree shakes with the wind; the house shakes in a tempest.
The foundations of the earth do shake. Isaiah 24:18.
2. To tremble; to shiver; to quake; as, a man shakes in an ague; or he shakes with cold, or with terror.
3. To totter.
Under his burning wheels
The steadfast empyrean shook throught,
All but the throne itself of God. Milton.
SHAKE, noun
1. Concussion; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and the other; agitation.
The great soldier's honor was composed of thicker stuff which could endure a shake. Herbert.
2. A trembling or shivering; agitation.
3. A motion of hands clasped.
Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, consisting of many kind shakes of the hand. Addison.
4. In music, a trill; a rapid reiteration of two notes comprehending an interval not greater than one whole tone, nor less than a semitone.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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