naar (to shake) · Rightly

Meaning

To shake, shake out or off(Qal) to shake out, show emptiness · (Niphal) · (Piel) to shake off or out · (Hithpael) to shake oneself

How it's translated

and he shook off 2
so i may shake myself free 1
i shook out 1
may he shake out 1
shaken out 1
so they may be shaken 1
i have been shaken off 1
and shaking off 1

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

Where it's used most

Isaiah 3
Psalms 2
Exodus 1
Judges 1
Nehemiah 1
Job 1

6 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Nehemiah 5:13Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
Job 38:13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Psalms 109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 136:15But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Isaiah 33:9The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

All 9 verses, by book

Exodus 1: 14:27
Judges 1: 16:20
Nehemiah 1: 5:13
Job 1: 38:13
Psalms 2: 109:23 136:15
Isaiah 3: 33:9 33:15 52:2

Hebrew dictionary

נָעַר naar · to shake

1) to shake, shake out or off 1a) (Qal) to shake out, show emptiness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be shaken 1b2) to shake oneself 1c) (Piel) to shake off or out 1d) (Hithpael) to shake oneself

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.