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Strong's #4579: seio (pronounced si'-o)

apparently a primary verb; to rock (vibrate, properly, sideways or to and fro), i.e. (generally) to agitate (in any direction; cause to tremble); figuratively, to throw into a tremor (of fear or concern):--move, quake, shake.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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seiō

1) to shake, agitate, cause to tremble

1a) of men, to be thrown into a tremor, to quake for fear

1b) metaphorically to agitate the mind

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: apparently a primary verb

Citing in TDNT: 7:196, 1014




Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Matthew 21:10: "all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?"
Matthew 27:51: "and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;"
Matthew 28:4: "of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead"
Hebrews 12:26: "Yet once more I shake not the earth only,"
Revelation 6:13: "casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind."









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