σαλεύω
to shake
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4531 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 12:26 ἐσάλευσεν aor act ind 3sg whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
- Hebrews 12:27 σαλευομένων σαλευόμενα pres pass ptcp gen pl neut pres pass ptcp nom pl neut This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb σαλευω centers on the idea of “to shake.” First canonically at Matthew 11:7, it enters the text early. It turns up in 14 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Luke (29%), then Acts and Matthew. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4531 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 57%
- Gospels 7 verses · 50%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 14%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shaken 3×, Shall be shaken 3×
- American Standard Version: Shaken 4×, Shall be shaken 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will be shaken 3×, Shook 2×, Swaying 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shaken 3×, Will be shaken 3×, Being shaken 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4531 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4531 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4531 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4531 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a motion produced by winds, storms, waves, etc
- to cast down from one's (secure and happy) state
- to move, agitate the mind, to disturb one
Word origin
Derived from σαλος (sálos) (G4535) — swell.
From G4535 ; to waver that is agitate rock topple or (by implication) destroy ; figuratively to disturb incite : - move shake (together) which can [-not] be shaken stir up.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms G4531 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4531, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σαλευω appears 57 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 56 verses in 17 books.
- 57
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 56
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 5:5 σαλεύω
- 2 Samuel 22:37 σαλεύω
- 2 Kings 17:20 σαλεύω
- 1 Chronicles 16:30 σαλεύω
- 2 Chronicles 33:8 σαλεύω
- Job 9:6 σαλεύω
- Psalms 9:27 σαλεύω
- Proverbs 3:26 σαλεύω
- Ecclesiastes 12:3 σαλεύω
- Isaiah 7:2 σαλεύω
- Jeremiah 23:9 σαλεύω
- Lamentations 4:14 σαλεύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4531) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 56. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 5:5 σαλεύω The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 22:37 σαλεύω You have enlarged my steps under me; My feet have not slipped.
- 2 Kings 17:20 σαλεύω Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
- 2 Kings 21:8 σαλεύω neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
- 1 Chronicles 16:30 σαλεύω Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it can't be moved.
- 2 Chronicles 33:8 σαλεύω neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses.
- Job 9:6 σαλεύω Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;
- Job 41:15 σαλεύω Strong scales are his pride, Shut up together with a close seal.
- Psalms 9:27 σαλεύω
- Psalms 12:5 σαλεύω "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
- Psalms 14:5 σαλεύω There they were in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.
- Psalms 15:8 σαλεύω
- Psalms 16:5 σαλεύω Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
- Psalms 17:8 σαλεύω Keep me as the apple of your eye; Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
- Psalms 20:8 σαλεύω They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright.
- Psalms 29:7 σαλεύω Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
- Psalms 32:8 σαλεύω I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Psalms 35:12 σαλεύω They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
- Psalms 37:17 σαλεύω For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But Yahweh upholds the righteous.
- Psalms 45:6 σαλεύω Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
- Psalms 45:7 σαλεύω You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
- Psalms 47:6 σαλεύω Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
- Psalms 59:4 σαλεύω I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
- Psalms 61:3 σαλεύω For you have been a refuge for me, A strong tower from the enemy.
- Psalms 72:2 σαλεύω He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
- Psalms 76:19 σαλεύω
- Psalms 81:5 σαλεύω He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
- Psalms 92:1 σαλεύω It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, To sing praises to your name, Most High;
- Psalms 93:18 σαλεύω
- Psalms 95:9 σαλεύω When your fathers tempted me, Tested me, and saw my work.
- Psalms 95:10 σαλεύω Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
- Psalms 95:11 σαλεύω Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
- Psalms 96:4 σαλεύω For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
- Psalms 97:7 σαλεύω Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
- Psalms 98:1 σαλεύω Sing to Yahweh a new song, For he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
- Psalms 106:27 σαλεύω That he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
- Psalms 108:10 σαλεύω Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
- Psalms 108:25 σαλεύω
- Psalms 111:6 σαλεύω He has shown his people the power of his works, In giving them the heritage of the nations.
- Psalms 113:7 σαλεύω He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
- Psalms 124:1 σαλεύω If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say,
- Proverbs 3:26 σαλεύω For Yahweh will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being taken.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3 σαλεύω In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders cease because they are few, And those who look out of the windows are darkened,
- Isaiah 7:2 σαλεύω It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
- Isaiah 40:20 σαλεύω He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.
- Jeremiah 23:9 σαλεύω Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
- Jeremiah 28:7 σαλεύω Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
- Lamentations 4:14 σαλεύω They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
- Lamentations 4:15 σαλεύω Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].
- Amos 8:12 σαλεύω They will wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, And will not find it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4531) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
