kineō (to move) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “move”, “wagging” and “shaking”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

to move 1
wagging 1
shaking 1
move 1
was thrown into commotion 1
stirring 1
i will remove 1
were moved 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Acts 3
Matthew 2
Revelation 2
Mark 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Matthew 27:39And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Mark 15:29And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts 21:30And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
Acts 24:5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Revelation 2:5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

All 8 verses, by book

Matthew 2: 23:4 27:39
Mark 1: 15:29
Acts 3: 17:28 21:30 24:5
Revelation 2: 2:5 6:14

Greek dictionary

κινέω kineō · to move

κινέω, -ῶ [in LXX for נוּעַ hi., רָמַשׂ, etc. ;] 1. to set in motion, move: Mat.23:4; τ. κεφαλήν (Psa.22:8, al.), Mat.27:39, Mrk.15:29; pass. (cf. Gen.7:21), Act.17:28. 2. to remove: Rev.2:5 6:14. 3. to excite, stir up: Act.24:5; pass., Act.21:30 (cf. μετα-, συν-κινέω).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “move” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MOVE, verb transitive

moov. [Latin moveo.]

To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means.
To excite into action; to affect; to agitate; to rouse; as, to move the passions.
To cause to act or determine; as, to move the will.
To persuade; to prevail on; to excite from a state of rest or indifference.

All definitions and other forms of “move”

To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart; to affect; to touch pathetically; to excite feeling in.“When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--” Matthew 9:36
To make angry; to provoke; to irritate.
To excite tumult or commotion.“When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them” Ruth 1:19
To influence or incite by secret agency.“God moved them to depart from him” 2 Chronicles 18:31
To shake; to agitate.“The kingdoms were moved” Psalms 46:6
To propose; to offer for consideration and determination; as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.
To propose; to recommend.
To prompt; to incite; to instigate. Acts 17:28

MOVE, verb intransitive

To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.

To have action.“In him we live, and move and have our being” Acts 17:28
To have the power of action.“Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
To walk.
To march.
To tremble; to shake.“The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth” Psalms 18:7
To change residence.

MOVE, noun

The act of moving; the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.