Strong's #8058: shamat (pronounced shaw-mat')

a primitive root; to fling down; incipiently to jostle; figuratively, to let alone, desist, remit:--discontinue, overthrow, release, let rest, shake, stumble, throw down.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâmaṭ

1) to release, let drop or loose or rest or fall

1a) (Qal) to let drop or fall

1b) (Niphal) to be made to fall down, be thrown down

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to cause to let drop

1c2) to release, let drop

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Exodus 23:11: "But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts"
Deuteronomy 15:2: "creditor that lendeth aught unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact"
Deuteronomy 15:3: "thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;"
2 Samuel 6:6: "and took hold of it; for the oxen shook"
2 Kings 9:33: "And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall,"
2 Kings 9:33: "And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall,"
1 Chronicles 13:9: "the ark; for the oxen stumbled."
Psalms 141:6: "When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet."
Jeremiah 17:4: " And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies"