Shake
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to agitate shake," primarily of the action of stormy winds, waves, etc., is used (a) literally, of a reed, Matthew 11:7; Luke 7:24; a vessel, "shaken" in filling, Luke 6:38; a building, Luke 6:48; Acts 4:31; 16:26; the natural forces of the heavens and heavenly bodies, Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:25; Luke 21:26; the earth, Hebrews 12:26 , "shook;" (b) metaphorically, (1) of "shaking" so as to make insecure, Hebrews 12:27 (twice); (2) of casting down from a sense of security, Acts 2:25 , "I should (not) be moved;" (3) to stir up (a crowd), Acts 17:13; (4) to unsettle, 2—Thessalonians 2:2 , "(to the end that) ye be not (quickly) shaken (from your mind)," i.e., from their settled conviction and the purpose of heart begotten by it, as to the return of Christ before the Day of the Lord begins; the metaphor may be taken from the loosening of a ship from its moorings by a storm. See Move , Stir.
"to shake to and fro," is rendered "to shake" in Matthew 28:4 , AV; Hebrews 12:26 , AV; Revelation 6:13 , AV and RV; see Move , No. 3.
"to shake off" (apo, "from," tinasso, "to shake"), is used in Luke 9:5 , of dust from the feet; Acts 28:5 , of a viper from the hand. In the Sept., Judges 16:20; 1—Samuel 10:2; Lamentations 2:7 .
"to shake out," is used of "shaking off" the dust from the feet, Matthew 10:14; Mark 6:11; Acts 13:51; of "shaking out" one's raiment, Acts 18:6 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
(2): ( v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
(3): ( n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
(4): ( n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
(5): ( v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; - generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
(6): ( n.) A shook of staves and headings.
(7): ( n.) The redshank; - so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
(8): ( n.) A fissure in rock or earth.
(9): ( v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
(10): obs. p. p. of Shake.
(11): ( v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
(12): ( n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
(13): ( v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
King James Dictionary [3]
SHAKE, pret. shook pp. shaken.
1. To cause to move with quick vibrations to move rapidly one way and the other to agitate as, the wind shakes a tree an earthquake shakes the hills or the earth.
I shook my lap, and said, so God shake out every man from his house-
Nehemiah 5 .
He shook the sacred honors of his head. Dryden.
-As a fig casteth her untimely fruit, when it is shaken of a mighty wind.
Revelation 6 .
2. To make to totter or tremble.
The rapid wheels shake the heav'n's basis. Milton.
3. To cause to shiver as, an ague shakes the whole frame. 4. To throw down by a violent motion.
Macbeth is ripe for shaking. Shak.
But see shake off, which is generally used.
5. To throw away to drive off.
'Tis our first intent
To shake all cares and business from our age. See Shake off. Shak.
6. To move from firmness to weaken the stability of to endanger to threaten to overthrow. Nothing should shake our belief in the being and perfections of God, and in our own accountableness. 7. To cause to waver or doubt to impair the resolution of to depress the courage of.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind. 2 Thessalonians 2 .
8. To trill as, to shake a note in music.
