to shake
na.ar denotes forceful shaking that casts out or dislodges, including shaking oneself free.
The attested uses most often describe forceful shaking that drives persons or things out, into a place, or away; they also show self-directed shaking free and participial descriptions of rejecting bribes or of a shaken landscape.
Senses in use
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Forcefully shaking out, away, or into · dominant
In Exodus 14:27 and Psalm 136:15, Piel forms occur in the sea narrative, where the APB renders the outcome as God having "tossed Egypt into the midst of the sea" and "shook Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea." In Job 38:13 the Niphal imperfect concerns the wicked being "shake[n] ... out," while Nehemiah 5:13 uses a Qal perfect in a spoken enactment: the APB renders both shaking out from house and toil and the resulting state of being "shaken out and empty."
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Shaking oneself free or being shaken off · common
Judges 16:20 has a Niphal imperfect in Samson's statement after waking, which the APB renders "shake myself." Isaiah 52:2 uses a Hithpael imperative addressed to Jerusalem in the command "Shake yourself from the dust," and Psalm 109:23 uses a Niphal perfect in the comparison "I am shaken off like a locust."
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Participial shaking in ethical and physical scenes · occasional
Isaiah 33:15 uses a Qal active participle of the person who rejects unjust gain; the APB renders the clause "who shakes his hands free of bribes." The same participial morphology in Isaiah 33:9 occurs in a description of the land, where the APB says that Bashan and Carmel "are shaken."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB uses "tossed," "shook," "shake," "shakes... free," and "shaken off" or "shaken out." These are whole-verse presentations for the Hebrew form.