Isaiah 30:28
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
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Luke 22:31
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
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σινιάζω
siniázō · sin-ee-ad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to riddle (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sift.
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Strong's first: Luke 22:31Strong's last: Luke 22:31
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nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
1 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).
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Strong's first: Amos 9:9Strong's last: Amos 9:9
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nûwph · noof
1 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 30:28Strong's last: Isaiah 30:28
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And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
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sift
SIFT, verb transitive
1. To separate by a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
2. To separate; to part.
3. To examine minutely or critically; to scrutinize. Let the principles of the party be thoroughly sifted. We have sifted your objections.
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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