naar · shake off

What it means

naar (נָעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shake off”.

Shake, throw off with a jolt.

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 fling something off, or be thrown out.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shook off ×2
• I am shaken off ×1
• Shake yourself ×1
• be shaken ×1
• shake myself free ×1
• shake off their leaves ×1
• shake out ×1
• shaken out ×1
• shook out ×1
• who shakes ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Judges×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

• Judges 16:20

  And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that YHWH had left him.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  I also shook out my lap and said, “So may Elohim shake out every man who does not fulfill this word, from his house and from his labor; and so may he be shaken out and empty.” And all the assembly said, “Amen.” And they praised YHWH. And the people did according to this word.

• Job 38:13

  so that it may seize the edges of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

• Psalms 109:23

  Like a shadow when it stretches out I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.

• Psalms 136:15

  and shook off Pharaoh and his army in the Sea of Reeds, for his loyal love is forever.

• Isaiah 33:9

  The land mourns, languishes; Lebanon is abashed, it withers; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks in righteous deeds and speaks uprightly, who rejects the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding a bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

• Isaiah 52:2

  Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, sit, Jerusalem; free yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

And 2 more times.