To shake
נוּטStrong’s H5120nut
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nut is the Hebrew word usually translated “let it quake”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to quake, shake, dangle
How it's translated
- let it quake 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נוּט nut · to shake
(Qal) to quake, shake, dangle
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.