Seio means “move” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4579 — meah (“gravel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4579 σείω (seio) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. seio (sei'-o) v. 1. (properly) to shake (sideways or to and fro) 2. (generally) to agitate (in any direction) It has 40 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include shake. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
seio (sei'-o) v. 1. (properly) to shake (sideways or to and fro) 2. (generally) to agitate (in any direction) 3. (figuratively) to cause to tremble 4. (reflexively) to tremble for fear or concern [apparently a primary verb] KJV: move, quake, shake
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4579. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to shake
Usage: σείω [in LXX chiefly for רָעַשׁ ;] to shake, move to and fro: τ. γῆν, Heb.12:26 (LXX); pass., ἡ γῆ, Mat.27:51 (LXX); συκῆ, Rev.6:13. Metaphorical, to agitate, stir up, with fear or some other emotion: Mat.21:10 28:4 (cf. ἀνα-, δια-, κατα-σείω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render seio, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4579 (σείω) appears 35 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
32 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
O Lord, in thy going forth on Seir, When thou wentest forth out of the land of Edom, The earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, And the clouds dropped water.
And the earth was troubled and quaked, And the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, Because the Lord was wroth with them.
Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, And its pillars totter.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
All the earth calleth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing.
The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
And the high mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low, And shall melt like wax before the flame
First 40 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4579.
O Lord, in thy going forth on Seir, When thou wentest forth out of the land of Edom, The earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, And the clouds dropped water.
And the earth was troubled and quaked, And the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, Because the Lord was wroth with them.
Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, And its pillars totter.
I quake in all my limbs, For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.
The earth quaked, yea, the heavens dropped water At the presence of the God of Sinai, At the presence of the God of Israel.
By three things the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear:
For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.
For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.
They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;
There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.
The vision of Egypt. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint within them.
And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,
It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.
For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.
Behold the city Zion, our refuge: thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved forever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:
We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.
The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.
For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.
By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.
For thus saith the Lord God to Tyre; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee?
At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice plants of Lebanon, all that drink water.
and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.
Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
And the Lord shall cry out of Zion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.
And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:
I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the mercy seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them striving to save himself shall be delivered.
The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.
Drink thou also thy fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon thee, and dishonor has gathered upon thy glory.
Thou didst cut asunder the heads of princes with amazement, They shall tremble in it; They shall burst their bridles, They shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.
For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
All the earth calleth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing.
The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.
And the high mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low, And shall melt like wax before the flame
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Seio (Strong's G4579) is a Greek word most simply glossed "move". seio (sei'-o) v. 1. (properly) to shake (sideways or to and fro) 2. (generally) to agitate (in any direction)
This page currently indexes 40 linked usages for Strong's G4579 across 19 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4579 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as shake. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 32 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4579, with linked reader references where each row is available.