To shake
זָלַלStrong’s H2151zalal (za-lal)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zalal is the Hebrew word usually translated “shook”, “glutton” and “among gluttons of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to shake, tremble, quake(Niphal) to shake, quake
- To be worthless, be vile, be insignificant, be light(Qal)
How it's translated
- they shook 2
- a glutton 1
- among gluttons of 1
- and a glutton 1
- gluttons 1
- from worthless 1
- despised 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Lamentations 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 23:20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Proverbs 28:7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
- Isaiah 64:1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
- Isaiah 64:3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
- Jeremiah 15:19Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Hebrew dictionary
זָלַל zalal · to shake
1) (Qal) to shake, tremble, quake 1a) (Niphal) to shake, quake
זָלַל zalal · be vile
1) to be worthless, be vile, be insignificant, be light 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be worthless, be insignificant 1a2) to make light of, squander, be lavish with
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.