מוֹטmôwṭ

totter, shake, slip

Pronunciation: mote · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4131

Meanings

Qal: totter, slip, shake (Psalms 60:4; Psalms 46:7; Deuteronomy 32:35)

Niph`al: be shaken, moved, overthrown (Psalms 17:5; Psalms 15:5; Isaiah 40:20)

Hiph`il: dislodge, let fall, drop (Psalms 55:4; Psalms 140:11)

Hithpo`el: be greatly shaken (Isaiah 24:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 38 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 25:35 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you.
  • Deuteronomy 32:35 I will take revenge; I will pay them back. In due time their feet will slip. Their day of disaster will arrive, and their destiny will overtake them.’
  • 1 Chronicles 16:30 Let all the earth tremble before him. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.
  • Job 41:23 Its flesh is hard and firm and cannot be penetrated.
  • Psalms 10:6 They think, “Nothing bad will ever happen to us! We will be free of trouble forever!”
  • Psalms 13:4 Don’t let my enemies gloat, saying, “We have defeated him!” Don’t let them rejoice at my downfall.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).