BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G2795
kineō — to move
κινέω, -ῶ [in LXX for נוּעַ hi., רָמַשׂ, etc. ;] 1. to set in motion, move: Mat.23:4; τ. κεφαλήν (Psa.22:8, al.), Mat.27:39, Mrk.15:29; pass. (cf. Gen.7:21), Act.17:28. 2. to remove: Rev.2:5 6:14. 3. to excite, stir up: Act.24:5; pass., Act.21:30 (cf. μετα-, συν-κινέω).† (AS)
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G3334
metakineō — to shift
μετα-κινέω, -ῶ [in LXX: Deu.19:14 (סוּג hi.), Isa.54:10 (מוֹט), etc. ;] trans., to move away, remove (ὅρια, Deu, l.with). Mid., to remove oneself, remove, shift: metaphorically, ἀπὸ τ. ἐλπίδος, Col.1:23.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4787
sugkineō — to stir up
συν-κινέω (Rec. συγκ-), -ῶ, to move together. Metaphorical, to excite, stir up: τ. λαόν, Act.6:12 (Arist., Polyb., al.).† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20424
epikineō — be moved
to be moved
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Heb. sing. parah, i.e., “fruitful”), mentioned in Pharaoh’s dream (Gen. 41: 18). Here the word denotes “buffaloes,” which fed on the reeds and sedge by the river’s brink.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
