Shaking
נֹ֫קֶףStrong’s H5363noqeph (no-qeph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Noqeph is the Hebrew word usually translated “like beating of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.”
Meaning
- Striking off
How it's translated
- like beating of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נֹ֫קֶף noqeph · shaking
striking off
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shaking” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHA'KING, participle present
tense Impelling to a wavering motion; causing to vacillate or waver; agitating.
- Trembling; shivering; quaking.
All definitions and other forms of “shaking”
SHA'KING, noun
- The act of shaking or agitating; brandishing.
- Concussion.
- A trembling or shivering.
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.