σαλεύω

σαλεύω — saleúō

σαλεύω; 1 aorist ἐσάλευσα; passive, present participle σαλευόμενος; perfect participle σεσαλευμενος; 1 aorist ἐσαλευθην; 1 future σαλευθήσομαι; (σάλος, which see); from Aeschylus and Aristophanes down; in the Sept., passive σαλεύομαι for מוט and נוּעַ;

a. properly, of the motion produced by winds, storms, waves, etc.; to agitate or shake: κάλαμον, passive, Mat 11:7; Luk 7:24; to cause to totter, τάς δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν, passive, Mat 24:29; Mar 13:25; Luk 21:26; τήν γῆν, Heb 12:26 (Isa 24:20; Amo 9:5); an edifice, Luk 6:48; Act 4:31; Act 16:26; τά μή σαλευόμενα, the things which are not shaken, i. e. the perfect state of things which will exist after the return of Christ from heaven and will undergo no change, opposed to τά σαλευόμενα, the present order of things subject to vicissitude and decay, Heb 12:27. To shake thoroughly, of a measure filled by shaking its contents together, Luk 6:38.

b. to shake down, overthrow, i. e. tropically, to cast down from one's (secure and happy) state, Act 2:25 (from Psalm 15:8 ); by a tropical use foreign to secular authors, to move or agitate the mind, to disturb one:τινα ἀπό τοῦ νως, so as to throw him out of his sober and natural mental state (Buttmann, 322 (277)), 2Th 2:2; τούς ὄχλους, to stir up, Act 17:13.