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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #08058 - שָׁמַט

Transliteration

shâmaṭ

Phonetics

shaw-mat'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

2408

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) to release, let drop or loose or rest or fall

1a) (Qal) to let drop or fall

1b) (Niphal) to be made to fall down, be thrown down

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to cause to let drop

1c2) to release, let drop

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2947 ‑ κυλίω (koo‑lee‑o'‑o); 863 ‑ ἀφίημι (af‑ee'‑ay‑mee); 1578 ‑ ἐκκλίνω (ek‑klee'‑no); 4049 ‑ περισπάω (per‑ee‑spah'‑o); 2666 ‑ καταπίνω (kat‑ap‑ee'‑no); 859 ‑ ἄφεσις (af'‑es‑is);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (9)

Exodus

Deuteronomy

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Jeremiah

NAS (14)

Exodus

Deuteronomy

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Jeremiah

HCS (9)

Exodus

Deuteronomy

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Jeremiah

BSB (9)

Exodus

Deuteronomy

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Jeremiah

ESV (8)

Deuteronomy

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Jeremiah

WEB (8)

Exodus

Deuteronomy

2 Samuel

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

Psalms

Jeremiah

Verse Results

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2849) u m s (סהמתה ShMTh) AC: Shake CO: ? AB: ?: A letting go or throwing down by shaking loose. [from: ms- destruction]

V) u m s (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)

N^f1) e u m s (סהמתהה ShMThH) - Release: As shaken off. KJV (5): release - Strongs: H8059 (שְׁמִטָּה)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

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.

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

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List of Word Forms

וְשָׁמַטְתָּ֗ה וַֽיִּשְׁמְט֑וּהָ וישמטוה ושמטתה נִשְׁמְט֣וּ נשמטו שָֽׁמְט֖וּ שָׁמ֗וֹט שָׁמְט֖וּ שִׁמְט֖וּהָ שמוט שמטו שמטוה תִּשְׁמְטֶ֣נָּה תַּשְׁמֵ֥ט תשמט תשמטנה niš·mə·ṭū nishmeTu nišməṭū šā·mə·ṭū šā·mō·wṭ šāməṭū šāmōwṭ shameTu shaMot shimTuha šim·ṭū·hā šimṭūhā taš·mêṭ tashMet tašmêṭ tiš·mə·ṭen·nāh tishmeTennah tišməṭennāh vaiyishmeTuha veshamatTah way·yiš·mə·ṭū·hā wayyišməṭūhā wə·šā·maṭ·tāh wəšāmaṭtāh

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