gaash (to shake) · Rightly

Meaning

To shake, quake(Qal) to shake · (Pual) to be shaken up, convulsed · (Hithpael) to shake back and forth, toss or reel to and fro · (Hithpoel) to reel to and fro

How it's translated

and they shook back and forth 3
they surge 2
and it shook back and forth 1
they are shaken 1
and it shook 1
and they will stagger to and fro 1

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

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 4
2 Samuel 1
Job 1
Psalms 1

4 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Job 34:20In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Jeremiah 5:22Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Jeremiah 25:16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
Jeremiah 46:8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

Hebrew dictionary

גָּעַשׁ gaash · to shake

1) to shake, quake 1a) (Qal) to shake 1b) (Pual) to be shaken up, convulsed 1c) (Hithpael) to shake back and forth, toss or reel to and fro 1d) (Hithpoel) to reel to and fro

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SHAKE, verb transitive

preterit tense shook; participle passive shaken.

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“-As a fig casteth her untimely fruit, when it is shaken of a mighty wind” Revelation 6:13
To make to totter or tremble.
To cause to shiver; as, an ague shakes the whole frame.
To throw down by a violent motion.

All definitions and other forms of “shake”

To throw away; to drive off.
To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to endanger; to threaten to overthrow.
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 2:2
To trill; as, to shake a note in music.

SHAKE, verb intransitive

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
To tremble; to shiver; to quake; as, a man shakes in an ague; or he shakes with cold, or with terror.
To totter.

SHAKE, noun

Concussion; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and the other; agitation.
A trembling or shivering; agitation.
A motion of hands clasped.
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). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.