mot · totter, slip

What it means

mot (מוֹט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “totter, slip”.

Lose one's footing.

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 lose footing, slide: "I shall not stumble".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• be moved ×12
• moved ×6
• be shaken ×4
• totter ×4
• shaken ×3
• slips ×2
• fails ×1
• fall ×1
• it totters ×1
• move ×1
• others ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×24
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×6

• Leviticus 25:35

  And if your brother becomes poor and his hand fails with you, you shall support him; as a resident alien and a temporary resident he shall live with you.

• Deuteronomy 32:35

  Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot slips; for near is the day of their calamity, and what is prepared for them hurries on.’

• 1 Chronicles 16:30

  Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world stands firm; it will not be moved.

• Job 41:23

  The folds of its flesh cling together, firm upon it, it does not move.

• Psalms 10:6

  He says in his heart, “I will not be moved; from generation to generation I will be without harm.”

• Psalms 13:4

  lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him”; my adversaries will be jubilant when I am moved.

• Psalms 15:5

  his silver he does not give at interest, and a bribe against the innocent he does not take. He who does these things will not be moved ever.

• Psalms 16:8

  I have set YHWH before me always; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

• Psalms 17:5

  My steps have held fast to your tracks; my footsteps have not been moved.

• Psalms 21:7

  For the king trusts in YHWH, and through the loyal love of Elyon he will not be moved.

• Psalms 30:6

  And I said in my ease, “I will never be moved.”

• Psalms 38:16

  For I said, “Lest they be glad over me; when my foot is moved, they magnify themselves against me.”

• Psalms 46:2

  Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when the mountains are moved into the heart of the seas;

• Psalms 46:5

  Elohim is in her midst; she will not be moved; Elohim will help her at the break of morning.

• Psalms 46:6

  Nations roared, kingdoms were moved; he gave his voice, the earth melts.

• Psalms 55:3

  because of the voice of the enemy, because of the pressure of the wicked; for they bring down upon me wickedness, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

• Psalms 55:22

  Cast upon YHWH your burden, and he will sustain you; he will never allow the righteous to be moved.

• Psalms 60:2

  You made the earth quake, you split it open; heal its fractures, for it totters.

• Psalms 62:2

  Only he is my Rock and my salvation, my high refuge; I will not be greatly moved.

• Psalms 62:6

  Only he is my Rock and my salvation, my high refuge; I will not be moved.

• Psalms 82:5

  They do not know, and they do not understand; in darkness they walk about; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

• Psalms 93:1

  YHWH reigns; with grandeur he has clothed himself; YHWH has clothed himself, with strength he has girded himself; the world also is firm; it will not be shaken.

• Psalms 94:18

  When I said, “My foot slips,” your loyal love, YHWH, upheld me.

• Psalms 96:10

  Say among the nations, “YHWH reigns!” The world also is firm; it will not be shaken; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 104:5

  He founded the earth on its bases; it will not be shaken forever and ever.

• Psalms 112:6

  For he will never be shaken; in eternal remembrance will be the righteous.

• Psalms 125:1

  A song of the ascents. Those who trust in YHWH are like Mount Zion, which will not be moved; forever it abides.

• Psalms 140:10

  May coals fall upon them; may he make them fall into the fire, into deep pits; may they not rise.

• Proverbs 10:30

  The righteous one will never be moved, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

• Proverbs 12:3

  A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.

• Proverbs 24:11

  Rescue those being taken to death, and those staggering to the slaughter, if only you would hold them back!

• Proverbs 25:26

  A muddied spring and a ruined fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

• Isaiah 24:19

  Broken, the earth is broken; split apart, the earth is split apart; shaken, the earth is shaken.

• Isaiah 40:20

  The one too poor for a contribution chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skilled craftsman to make firm a carved image that will not totter.

• Isaiah 41:7

  And the craftsman encourages the goldsmith, he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, so that it will not totter.

• Isaiah 54:10

  For the mountains will move, and the hills will totter, but my loyal love will not move from you, and my covenant of peace will not totter,” says the one who has compassion on you, YHWH.

And 2 more times.