To shake
מוֹטStrong’s H4131mot
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mot is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be shaken”, “shaken” and “it is moved”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.”
Meaning
- To totter, shake, slip(Qal) to totter, shake, slip · (Niphal) to be shaken, be moved, be overthrown · (Hiphil) to dislodge, let fall, drop · (Hithpael) to be greatly shaken
How it's translated
- it will be shaken 8
- i will be shaken 5
- he will be shaken 4
- it is moved 2
- and it will slip 1
- it will slip 1
- i am shaken 1
- they have been shaken 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 24
- Proverbs 4
- Isaiah 4
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
- 1 Chronicles 16:30Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
- Job 41:23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
- Psalms 10:6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
- Psalms 13:4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
- Psalms 15:5He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹט mot · to shake
1) to totter, shake, slip 1a) (Qal) to totter, shake, slip 1b) (Niphal) to be shaken, be moved, be overthrown 1c) (Hiphil) to dislodge, let fall, drop 1d) (Hithpael) to be greatly shaken
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.