Quick Definition
to release
Strong's Definition
to fling down; incipiently to jostle; figuratively, to let alone, desist, remit
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: discontinue, overthrow, release, let rest, shake, stumble, throw down.
TWOT Reference: 2408
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁמַט (sha.mat) — to release. 1) to release, let drop or loose or rest or fall 1a) (Qal) to let drop or fall 1b) (Niphal) to be made to fall down, be thrown down 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to let drop 1c2) to release, let drop
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Release | verb qal
to slip = process by which an animal fails to grip or make proper contact with a surface
Release | verb qal, verb nif
to drop, to let fall = actions by which humans let go of an object held in their hands, ► so that it will fall
1 2KI 9:33 MT-K שׁמטהו | MT-Q שִׁמְטוּהָ
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁמַט] vb. let drop Qal let drop, fall
Niph. their judges have been thrown down
Hiph. thou shalt cause thy hand to let drop, etc.
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