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Lexicon :: Strong's G1621 - ektinassō

Aa
ἐκτινάσσω
Transliteration
ektinassō (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-tin-as'-so
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἐκ (G1537) and tinasso (to swing)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἐκτινάσσω ektinássō, ek-tin-as'-so; from G1537 and tinasso (to swing); to shake violently:—shake (off).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G1621 in the following manner: shake off (3x), shake (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G1621 in the following manner: shake off (3x), shake (1x).

  1. to shake off so that something adhering shall fall

    1. by this symbolic act a person, expresses extreme contempt for another and refuses to have any further dealings with him

    2. to shake off for (the cleansing of) one's self

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκτινάσσω ektinássō, ek-tin-as'-so; from G1537 and tinasso (to swing); to shake violently:—shake (off).
STRONGS G1621:
ἐκτινάσσω: 1 aorist imperative ἐκτινάξατε; 1 aorist middle participle ἐκτιναξάμενος; to shake off, so that something adhering shall fall: τὸν χοῦν, Mark 6:11; τὸν κονιορτόν, Matthew 10:14 (where the genitive τῶν ποδῶν does not depend on the verb but on the substantive [L T WH marginal reading, however, insert ἐκ]); by this symbolic act a person expresses extreme contempt for another and refuses to have any further contact with him [B. D. American edition under the word Dust]; middle to shake off for (the cleansing of) oneself: τ. κονιορτὸν... ἐπί τινα, against one, Acts 13:51; τὰ ἱμάτια, dust from garments, Acts 18:6; [cf. B. D. as above; Nehemiah 5:13]. (to knock out, τοὺς ὀδόντας, Homer, Iliad 16, 348; Plutarch, Cat. maj. 14.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Nehemiah
5:13
Matthew
10:14
Mark
6:11
Acts
13:51; 18:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1621 matches the Greek ἐκτινάσσω (ektinassō),
which occurs 19 times in 16 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:33 -
God is my strong fortress;
And he guideth the perfect in his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:16 - And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 -
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 -
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:4 -
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
So are the children of youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:15 -
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea;
For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:27 - For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit on thy throne, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:14 - He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:2 - For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.
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