saleuō · shake

What it means

saleuō (σαλεύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “shake”.

Stir; unsettle.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To rattle hard, make tremble.
2. To unsettle someone, make them lose their calm.
3. To stir up a crowd.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• shaken ×12
• agitating ×1
• shake ×1
• shook ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• Acts×4
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×3

• Matthew 11:7

  As these were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind?

• Matthew 24:29

  And at once after the affliction of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

• Mark 13:25

  and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

• Luke 6:38

  Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down, shaken, running over, they will put into your lap; for with the measure with which you measure, it will be measured back to you.”

• Luke 6:48

  he is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood came, the river burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

• Luke 7:24

  And when John’s messengers had left, he began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind?

• Luke 21:26

  people fainting from fear and expectation of the things coming on the inhabited world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

• Acts 2:25

  For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord before me always, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be shaken.

• Acts 4:31

  And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and all were filled with the Holy Spirit and were speaking the word of God with boldness.

• Acts 16:26

  And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

• Acts 17:13

  But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:2

  that you not be quickly shaken from your mind or alarmed, whether by a spirit or by a word or by a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is here.

• Hebrews 12:26

  His voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying: Yet once more I will make not only the earth but also heaven quake.

• Hebrews 12:27

  And the phrase “Yet once more” indicates the removal of the things that are shaken, as things that have been made, so that the things that are not shaken may remain.

And 1 more times.