Word Summary
seismos: a commotion, shaking
Original Word: σεισμόςTransliteration: seismos
Phonetic Spelling: (sice-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a commotion, shaking
Meaning: a commotion, shaking
Strong's Concordance
earthquake, tempest.
From seio; a commotion, i.e. (of the air) a gale, (of the ground) an earthquake -- earthquake, tempest.
see GREEK seio
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4578: σεισμόςσεισμός,
σεισμοῦ,
ὁ (
σείω),
a shaking, a commotions:
ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ,
a tempest, Matthew 8:24; as often in Greek writings from (
Herodotus 4, 28),
Sophocles,
Aristophanes down, pre-eminently an
earthquake:
Matthew 24:7;
Matthew 27:54;
Matthew 28:2;
Mark 13:8;
Luke 21:11;
Acts 16:26;
Revelation 6:12;
Revelation 8:5;
Revelation 11:13, 19;
Revelation 16:15; the
Sept. for
רַעַשׁ.