Quake

From BiblePortal Wikipedia

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: Ἔντρομος (Strong'S #1790 — Adjective — entromos — en'-trom-os )

an adjective signifying "trembling with fear" (en, "in," tremo, "to tremble"), is used with eimi, "to be," in  Hebrews 12:21 (some mss. have ektromos, with the same meaning), "I quake," lit., "I am trembling." It is used with ginomai, "to become," in   Acts 7:32 , "trembled," lit., "became trembling," and  Acts 16:29 , RV, "trembling for fear" (AV, "came trembling"). See Tremble.

2: Σείω (Strong'S #4579 — Verb — seio — si'-o )

"did quake,"  Matthew 27:51;  28:4 , RV (AV, "did shake"). See Move , No. 3, Shake, Tremble

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): ( n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

(2): ( v. t.) To cause to quake.

(3): ( v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.

(4): ( v. i.) To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.

King James Dictionary [3]

Quake

1. To shake to tremble to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold.  Hebrews 12 . 2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling as, the earth quakes the mountains quake.  Nehemiah 1 . 3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet as the quaking mud.

QUAKE, To frighten to throw into agitation. Not used.

QUAKE, n. A shake a trembling a shudder a tremulous agitation.

References