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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G4531
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
G660
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
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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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