ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ, κατασεισθηναι
KATASEISTHĒNAI, kataseisthēnai
Sounds Like: kah-tah-SAY-sthai
Translations: to shake violently, to be shaken violently, to be agitated, to be stirred up
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from κατά (kata, 'down' or 'completely') and σείω (seiō, 'to shake'). It means to shake something violently, to cause it to be completely shaken, or to be violently agitated. It can refer to physical shaking, like an earthquake, or to the stirring up of a crowd or emotions.
Inflection: Aorist, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2679 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 19:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΕΤΑΙ — is shaken, is swayed, is agitated, is moved
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΟΝΤΕΣ — shaking, waving, motioning, beckoning
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΣΑΝΤΟΣ — having shaken, having waved, having motioned
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΣΑΣ — having motioned, having waved, having shaken, having shaken down
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩ — to shake, to wave, to motion, to beckon, to make a sign
- ΚΑΤΑΣΕΙΩΝ — shaking, waving, motioning, beckoning
- ΚΑΤΑΣΗΣΑΙ — to shake down, to scatter, to strew, to sift
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕ — shook, caused to fall, caused to collapse, caused to shake, caused to be overthrown
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΕ — shook down, overthrew, caused to fall, demolished
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΕΝ — he waved, he shook, he motioned, he beckoned
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΟΝ — they were shaking, they were waving, they were motioning
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΣΕΝ — he shook, he waved, he motioned, he signaled
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΣΘΗ — was shaken down, was overthrown, was made to fall, was made to collapse
- ΚΑΤΕΣΕΙΩ — to wave, to make a sign, to beckon, to shake down, to shake violently
- ΚΑΤΕΣΗΣΑΝ — they shook, they waved, they motioned, they beckoned
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