Greek verb · G4579
σείω
seiosi'-o
to shake
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: seíō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4579is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4579
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)
The King James renders it: move, quake, shake.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
seio is rendered "to shake". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:10When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
Matthew 21:10ἐσείσθη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- being shaken1
- trembled1
- was shaken1
- was stirred1
- will shake1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐσείσθη2
- ἐσείσθησαν1
- σειομένη1
- σείσω1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-API-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PPP-NSF
Matthew
three uses
When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
- ἐσείσθηeseistheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was stirred
At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- ἐσείσθηeseistheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was shaken
The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.
- ἐσείσθησανeseisthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: trembled
Hebrews
one use
At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”
- σείσωseisoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will shake
Revelation
one use
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
- σειομένηseiomeneverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: being shaken
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.