the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Strong's #8058 - שָׁמַט
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- to release, let drop or loose or rest or fall
- (Qal) to let drop or fall
- (Niphal) to be made to fall down, be thrown down
- (Hiphil)
- to cause to let drop
- to release, let drop
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2849) ums (סהמתה ShMTh) AC: Shake CO: ? AB: ?: A letting go or throwing down by shaking loose. [from: ms- destruction]
V) ums (סהמתה ShMTh) - Shake: To shake to throw off, loosen or release. KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) release, throw, shake, stumble, discontinue, overthrow - Strongs: H8058 (שָׁמַט)
Nf1) eums (סהמתהה ShMThH) - Release: As shaken off. KJV (5): release - Strongs: H8059 (שְׁמִטָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
draw sword, draw or pull away; Arabic 
; is hang, suspend, II. release debtor (Kam), 
string of pearls); — Qal let drop, fall: Imperative masculine plural suffix + Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix וַיִּשְׁמְטוּהָ (final ו dittograph) שִׁמְטוּהָו 2 Kings 9:33 he said, Let her fall, and they let her fall; then figurative, of letting land rest in seventh year:, 2 masculine singular suffix: תִּשְׁמְטֶנָּה Exodus 23:11 (E); Perfect 2 masculine singular וְשָׁמַטְתָּ֫ה> Jeremiah 17:4 thou shalt let drop thy hand (read יָָֽרְךָ for וּבְךְ JDMich and modern) from (מִן) thine inheritance, i.e. abandon it; Infinitive abs. שָׁמוֺט Deuteronomy 15:2 let fall (a debt in seventh year; see מַשֶּׁה b). — Perfect 3 plural שָֽׁמְטוּ הַבָּקָר 2 Samuel 6:6= 1 Chronicles 13:9 is dubious, most naturally either they let the oxen fall (slip, stumble), or (as Targan) the oxen let it fall (reading שְׁמָטוֺ, that Isaiah , the ark); > Thes the oxen ran away; ᵑ6 slipped (the yoke)? see further Dr.
Niph`al Perfect 3 plural נִשְׁמְטוּ Psalm 141:6 their judges have been thrown down.
Hiph`il 2 masculine singular (?) jussive (?) תַּשְׁמֵט Deuteronomy 15:3 thou, shalt cause thy hand to let drop, etc.; Ba NB 147
Qal; < read תִּשְׁמֹט (compare Dr), יָרֶ֑ךָ: subject
שָׁמַט
(1) pr. i.q. שָׁמַץ to smite, to strike; also, to cast, to throw down, compare Arab. شمص to strike, to thrust, and to urge on a beast violently. (To this answers the Germ. vulg. fchmeißen, to strike and to cast; Anglo-Sax. smitan; Engl. to smite; rejecting the sibilant, mittere.) Hence
(a) 2 Samuel 6:6, כִּי שָֽׁמְטוּ הַבָּקָר “for the oxen kicked,” were restive (die Rinder fchlugen, fchmißen aus). Vulg. calcitrabant. The other interpretations of this passage are discussed by Bochart, Hieroz. t. i. page 372.
(b) to cast, to throw down (any one from a window into the street), 2 Kings 9:33.
(2) to fall, to let lie
(a) a field untilled, Exodus 23:11.
(b) to remit a debt, Deuteronomy 15:2.
(c) followed by מִן to desist from anything, Jeremiah 17:4.
Niphal, pass. of Kal No. 1, to be cast down, precipitated (from a rock), Psalms 141:6.
Hiphil, i.q. Kal No. 2, b, to remit, Deuteronomy 15:3. Hence
