Word Summary
diaseiō: to shake violently, to intimidate
Original Word: διασείωTransliteration: diaseiō
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-i'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to shake violently, to intimidate
Meaning: to shake violently, to intimidate
Strong's Concordance
intimidate, extort
From dia and seio; to shake thoroughly, i.e. (figuratively) to intimidate -- do violence to.
see GREEK dia
see GREEK seio
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1286: διασείωδιασείω: 1 aorist
διεσεισα; in Greek writings from
Herodotus down;
to shake thoroughly; tropically,
to make to tremble, to terrify (
Job 4:14 for
הִפְחִיר)
to agitate; like
concurio in juridical Latin,
to extort from one
by intimidation money or other property:
τινα,
Luke 3:14 (
A. V. do violence to); 3Macc. 7:21; the
Basilica; (Heinichen on
Eusebius,
h. e. 7, 30, 7).