Strong G4579σείω
to shake
- Transliteration
- seiō
- Pronunciation
- si'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb; to rock (vibrate properly sideways or to and fro) that is (generally) to agitate (in any direction; cause to tremble); figuratively to throw into a tremor (of fear or concern): - move quake shake.
Detailed definition
σείω
[in LXX chiefly for רָעַשׁ;]
to shake, move to and fro: τ. γῆν, Heb.12:26 (LXX); pass., ἡ γῆ, Mat.27:51 (LXX); συκῆ, Rev.6:13. Metaphorical, to agitate, stir up, with fear or some other emotion: Mat.21:10 28:4 (cf. ἀνα-, δια-, κατα-σείω).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for רָעַשׁ;]
to shake, move to and fro: τ. γῆν, Heb.12:26 (LXX); pass., ἡ γῆ, Mat.27:51 (LXX); συκῆ, Rev.6:13. Metaphorical, to agitate, stir up, with fear or some other emotion: Mat.21:10 28:4 (cf. ἀνα-, δια-, κατα-σείω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4579 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- shake2
- move1
- quake1
- shaken1
First verses
- Matthew 21:10And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
- Matthew 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- Matthew 28:4And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
- Hebrews 12:26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
- Revelation 6:13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σείω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.563, etc.)], poetry σίω [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 49)]: Ep imperfect σεῖον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.486)]; Ionic dialect σείασκον (ἀνασ-) [Refs (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 403 (variant{ἀνασσείσασκε}))]: future σείσω [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Isa.10.14, (δια-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 613)]: aorist ἔσεισα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 713, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 12, etc.)]; Epic dialect σεῖσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.321:)]perfect σέσεικα (κατα-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 84, (ἐν-) 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 30:)] —middle, aorist ἐσεισάμην (ἀπ-) [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 348, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.88, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 287, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 484a)]; Epic dialect σείσατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.199, ἐσείσατο 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 1, etc.)]:—passive, aorist ἐσείσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.98, etc.)]: perfect σέσεισμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.94, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1276)]:—shake, move to and fro, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (especially in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; σ. ἐγχείας, ἔγχεα, μελίην, shake the poised spear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.345, 13.135 (_passive_), 22.133, etc.)]; αἰγίδα [Refs (15.321)]; σανίδας σ. shake the door, [Refs (9.583)]; of chariot horses, σεῖον ζυγὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.486)]; σ. λόφον, of a warrior, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 22, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 385)]; ἡνίας χεροῖν σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 713; χαλινούς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 151 (_anapaest meter_))]; σ. χαίτην, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 49, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 75 (Lyric poetry), “Med.” 1191; εὔπτερον δέμας [prev. author] “Ion” 1204)]; κάρα σ., as sign of discontent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 291)]; but of one dancing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 185)]; ἄκρᾳ τῇ οὐρᾷ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.4.)]
2 of earthquakes, which were attributed to Poseidon [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 403a), ὅστις νομίζει Ποσειδέωνα τὴν γῆν σείειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.129; without τὴν γῆν, αὐτοῖς ὁ Ποσειδῶν σείσας ἐμβάλοι οἰκίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 511, compare “Lys.” 1142)]; βρονταῖς χθόνα σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Av.” 1752; ἔσεισεν ὁ θεός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.7.4: also _impersonal_, ἔσεισεν)] there was an earthquake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.52.)]
3 metaphorically, agitate, disturb, πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.272; τὰ πόλεος.. θεοὶ πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 163)]; σ. τὴν καρδίαν turn the stomach, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 12)]; σ. τὴν κεφαλήν cause a concussion of.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.143, see below 11.2)]:—passive, ἐσείσθη τὴν καρδίαν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.1.11.)]
4 in Attic dialect, accuse falsely or spitefully, so as to extort hushmoney, blackmail, σ. καὶ ταράττων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 840, compare 5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 2; ἔσειον τοὺς παχεῖς καὶ πλουσίους 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 639)]; ἑτέρους τῶν ὑπευθύνων ἔσειε καὶ ἐσυκοφάντει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.43, compare “BGU” 428.9 (2nd c.AD))]; so perhaps σείειν κατ᾽ ἀγοράν [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.70 (assuming variant))]:—passive, to be extorted, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 1252r.37 (3rd c.AD).)]
II passive, shake, heave, quake, of the earth, ἐσσείοντο πόδες Ἴδης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.59; Δῆλος.. πρῶτα καὶ ὕστατα.. σεισθεῖσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.98)]: metaphorically, to be shaken to its foundation, τὸ τερπνὸν πιτνεῖ.. σεσεισμένον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.94; οἷς.. ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 584 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.2 generally, move to and fro, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.285; φαεινὴ σείετο πήληξ 13.805; κόμαι σείονται 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1312)]; ὄρχος σειόμενος φύλλοισι an orchard waving with foliage, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” [299])]; ὀδόντων οἱ πλεῦνες ἐσείοντο his teeth were loose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.107; σεισθῆναι σάλῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 46; τὸν ἐγκέφαλον σεσεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1276; ὁκόσων ἂν σεισθῇ ὁ ἐγκέφαλος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.58; σείεσθαι τὴν ὄψιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Vertigine” 8.)]
III middle, shake something of one's own, from oneself, etc., σεισαμένας πτερὰ ματρός [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.13; σ. γυίων ἄπο νήχυτον ἅλμην 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1367; σ. πλοκαμῖδας “Anthologia Graeca” 5.272 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus).)]
III.2 shake oneself, shake, stir, Ἥρη σείσατο εἰνὶ θρόνῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.199; ἐσείσατο δάφνινος ὄρπηξ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 1.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.563, etc.)], poetry σίω [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 49)]: Ep imperfect σεῖον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.486)]; Ionic dialect σείασκον (ἀνασ-) [Refs (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 403 (variant{ἀνασσείσασκε}))]: future σείσω [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Isa.10.14, (δια-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 613)]: aorist ἔσεισα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 713, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 12, etc.)]; Epic dialect σεῖσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.321:)]perfect σέσεικα (κατα-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 84, (ἐν-) 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 30:)] —middle, aorist ἐσεισάμην (ἀπ-) [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 348, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.88, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 287, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 484a)]; Epic dialect σείσατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.199, ἐσείσατο 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 1, etc.)]:—passive, aorist ἐσείσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.98, etc.)]: perfect σέσεισμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.94, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1276)]:—shake, move to and fro, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (especially in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; σ. ἐγχείας, ἔγχεα, μελίην, shake the poised spear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.345, 13.135 (_passive_), 22.133, etc.)]; αἰγίδα [Refs (15.321)]; σανίδας σ. shake the door, [Refs (9.583)]; of chariot horses, σεῖον ζυγὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.486)]; σ. λόφον, of a warrior, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 22, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 385)]; ἡνίας χεροῖν σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 713; χαλινούς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 151 (_anapaest meter_))]; σ. χαίτην, etc., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 49, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 75 (Lyric poetry), “Med.” 1191; εὔπτερον δέμας [prev. author] “Ion” 1204)]; κάρα σ., as sign of discontent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 291)]; but of one dancing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 185)]; ἄκρᾳ τῇ οὐρᾷ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.4.)]
2 of earthquakes, which were attributed to Poseidon [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 403a), ὅστις νομίζει Ποσειδέωνα τὴν γῆν σείειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.129; without τὴν γῆν, αὐτοῖς ὁ Ποσειδῶν σείσας ἐμβάλοι οἰκίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 511, compare “Lys.” 1142)]; βρονταῖς χθόνα σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Av.” 1752; ἔσεισεν ὁ θεός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.7.4: also _impersonal_, ἔσεισεν)] there was an earthquake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.52.)]
3 metaphorically, agitate, disturb, πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.272; τὰ πόλεος.. θεοὶ πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 163)]; σ. τὴν καρδίαν turn the stomach, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 12)]; σ. τὴν κεφαλήν cause a concussion of.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 1.143, see below 11.2)]:—passive, ἐσείσθη τὴν καρδίαν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.1.11.)]
4 in Attic dialect, accuse falsely or spitefully, so as to extort hushmoney, blackmail, σ. καὶ ταράττων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 840, compare 5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 2; ἔσειον τοὺς παχεῖς καὶ πλουσίους 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 639)]; ἑτέρους τῶν ὑπευθύνων ἔσειε καὶ ἐσυκοφάντει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.43, compare “BGU” 428.9 (2nd c.AD))]; so perhaps σείειν κατ᾽ ἀγοράν [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.70 (assuming variant))]:—passive, to be extorted, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 1252r.37 (3rd c.AD).)]
II passive, shake, heave, quake, of the earth, ἐσσείοντο πόδες Ἴδης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.59; Δῆλος.. πρῶτα καὶ ὕστατα.. σεισθεῖσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.98)]: metaphorically, to be shaken to its foundation, τὸ τερπνὸν πιτνεῖ.. σεσεισμένον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.94; οἷς.. ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 584 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.2 generally, move to and fro, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.285; φαεινὴ σείετο πήληξ 13.805; κόμαι σείονται 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1312)]; ὄρχος σειόμενος φύλλοισι an orchard waving with foliage, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” [299])]; ὀδόντων οἱ πλεῦνες ἐσείοντο his teeth were loose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.107; σεισθῆναι σάλῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 46; τὸν ἐγκέφαλον σεσεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1276; ὁκόσων ἂν σεισθῇ ὁ ἐγκέφαλος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.58; σείεσθαι τὴν ὄψιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Vertigine” 8.)]
III middle, shake something of one's own, from oneself, etc., σεισαμένας πτερὰ ματρός [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 13.13; σ. γυίων ἄπο νήχυτον ἅλμην 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1367; σ. πλοκαμῖδας “Anthologia Graeca” 5.272 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus).)]
III.2 shake oneself, shake, stir, Ἥρη σείσατο εἰνὶ θρόνῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.199; ἐσείσατο δάφνινος ὄρπηξ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 1.)]