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Lexicon :: Strong's G4578 - seismos

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σεισμός
Transliteration
seismos (Key)
Pronunciation
sice-mos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:196,1014

Strong’s Definitions

σεισμός seismós, sice-mos'; from G4579; a commotion, i.e. (of the air) a gale, (of the ground) an earthquake:—earthquake, tempest.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G4578 in the following manner: earthquake (13x), tempest (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G4578 in the following manner: earthquake (13x), tempest (1x).

  1. a shaking, a commotion

  2. a tempest

  3. an earthquake

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σεισμός seismós, sice-mos'; from G4579; a commotion, i.e. (of the air) a gale, (of the ground) an earthquake:—earthquake, tempest.
STRONGS G4578:
σεισμός, 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.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
8:24; 24:7; 27:54; 28:2
Mark
13:8
Luke
21:11
Acts
16:26
Revelation
6:12; 8:5; 11:13; 11:19; 16:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4578 matches the Greek σεισμός (seismos),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 - Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 - My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:6 - you will be visited by the LORD of hosts
with thunder and with earthquake and great noise,
with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
a great commotion out of the north country
to make the cities of Judah a desolation,
a lair of jackals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:19 - Behold, the storm of the LORD!
Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:3 - At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers look not back to their children,
so feeble are their hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:12 - Then the Spirit[fn] lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice[fn] of a great earthquake: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:13 - It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:7 - So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling,[fn] and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:19 - For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:1 - The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds[fn] of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years[fn] before the earthquake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:2 - The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel,
galloping horse and bounding chariot!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:5 - And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.[fn]
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