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Leviticus 25:35 וּמָ֥טָה and it will slip

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

Here: 'And it totters / slips'. This is the verb used for a foot slipping or a wall about to fall. It pictures something on the edge of collapse that has not yet fallen.

Deuteronomy 32:35 תָּמ֣וּט [when] it will slip

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Here: "Totters" or "slips": losing one's footing, a common Hebrew picture of sudden collapse after apparent security.

1 Chronicles 16:30 תִּמּֽוֹט׃ it will be shaken

tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

Job 41:23 יִמּֽוֹט׃ it is moved

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Psalm 10:6 אֶמּ֑וֹט I will be shaken

He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

Here: 'I shall be made to totter' (a passive-type form). The picture is a foot slipping, a wall leaning, or ground giving way: losing your footing and your standing. With bal it means 'I will never be toppled.'

Psalm 13:4 אֶמּֽוֹט׃ I am shaken

lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.

Here: 'I totter / am toppled.' This is the picture of a foot slipping or a wall giving way: losing your footing completely. It is not emotional 'being moved'.

Psalm 15:5 יִמּ֣וֹט he will be shaken

who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Here: "He will (not) be made to totter." The verb is used for a foot slipping, a wall leaning, or mountains and foundations shaking. The person who has just been welcomed onto God's holy hill (v. 1) will stand there as firmly as the hill itself.

Psalm 16:8 אֶמּֽוֹט׃ I will be shaken

I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Here: "I will (be made to) totter / slip." The word pictures something losing its footing: a foot slipping, a wall giving way, the earth's foundations quaking. The psalmist says he will not topple from where he stands.

Psalm 17:5 נָמ֥וֹטּוּ they have been shaken

My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Here: 'They have not been made to totter.' The verb describes something losing its footing and being knocked off balance or toppled. It is the language of instability and collapse, not of a small mistake.

Psalm 21:7 יִמּֽוֹט׃ he will be shaken

For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.

Here: A passive verb form: 'he will not be made to totter, slip, or be toppled.' It pictures a wall, a mountain or a foothold giving way. Here it applies to the king and his throne, and it looks to the future and keeps on holding.

Psalm 30:6 אֶמּ֥וֹט I will be shaken

In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”

Psalm 38:16 בְּמ֥וֹט when slips

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

Here: "In the tottering of…": a verb form used like a noun, with "in/when". It pictures footing giving way, a stumble that could become a fall. It is a common Hebrew picture of calamity or collapse.

Psalm 46:2 וּבְמ֥וֹט and when shake

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,

Here: 'And when (the mountains) totter / slip.' The word means losing your footing and wobbling toward a fall. The same verb comes back in verse 5 ('she will not be moved') and verse 6 ('kingdoms totter'), which ties the three scenes together.

Psalm 46:5 תִּמּ֑וֹט it will be shaken

God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.

Here: "She will (not) totter." This is the same verb the psalm uses for the mountains sliding into the sea (v. 2) and for kingdoms toppling (v. 6). Everything else in the psalm totters; the city where God lives does not.

Psalm 46:6 מָ֣טוּ they shook

Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

Here: Kingdoms 'tottered', lost their footing. The verb links back to the mountains that totter in verse 2 and the city that 'will not totter' in verse 5. The kingdoms are what lose their balance.

Psalm 55:3 יָמִ֥יטוּ they drop

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster upon me and resent me in their anger.

Here: The root means to slip, totter or shake. Here the verb is causative: they make trouble topple or slide down onto him, like pushing a load over or rolling rocks down. Ps 140:10 uses the same verb for burning coals falling on enemies.

Psalm 55:22 מ֗וֹט to shake

Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

Here: 'A tottering.' It is the word for a foot slipping, a wall swaying, ground giving way (Ps 66:9; 121:3). The picture is losing your footing and going down, being dislodged from where you stand.

Psalm 60:2 מָֽטָה׃ it is shaking

You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

Here: 'It totters.' The verb form describes a state that has already begun and is still going on: the land is giving way right now. Elsewhere this is the word the Psalms use when they insist that God's world 'shall not be moved' (Ps 93:1; 96:10).

Psalm 62:2 אֶמּ֥וֹט I will be shaken

He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

Here: 'I will be toppled / made to totter.' The form is passive, so it describes something done to him: he will not be shoved over. It is the word for a wall or foundation giving way, or feet slipping, and it sets up the next verse, where enemies try to push him over 'like a leaning wall.'

Psalm 62:6 אֶמּֽוֹט׃ I will be shaken

He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.

Here: A passive form in the 'ongoing or future' tense: 'I will not be made to totter / I cannot be toppled.' It pictures footing that slips or a wall that sways and falls. This answers the enemies' attack in v. 3, where they assault the speaker as if he were a leaning wall.

Psalm 82:5 יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ they are shaken

They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Here: Passive form (niphal): 'they totter, are made to shake.' It is the word the Psalms use when they say the world 'will not be moved' because God reigns justly (Ps 93:1; 96:10). Here the opposite is happening.

Psalm 93:1 תִּמּֽוֹט׃ it will be shaken

The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

Here: 'It will not totter.' This verb is used for slipping feet, collapsing walls and shaking mountains. The world will not wobble, slide or fall apart into chaos. The point is stability, not whether the earth moves through space.

Psalm 94:18 מָ֣טָה it has slipped

If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.

Here: 'It has tottered / given way.' The verb is used for ground, walls or feet that lose their hold. The form is completed, as if the foot has already gone. The psalmist means the fall has started, not merely that it might happen.

Psalm 96:10 תִּמּ֑וֹט it will be shaken

Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

Here: To wobble, slip or collapse, the word used for a foot that slides or a wall that gives way. Under this King the world will not fall apart into chaos.

Psalm 104:5 תִּ֝מּ֗וֹט it will be shaken

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Here: 'It will (not) totter': the verb for a foot slipping, a wall leaning, a structure wobbling and collapsing. Here it is passive in form, 'be made to totter'. The point is stability against collapse, not lack of motion through space.

Psalm 112:6 יִמּ֑וֹט he will be shaken

Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.

Here: Passive-reflexive form: 'he will be made to totter / will slip.' The picture is a foot giving way or a wall or mountain shifting off its base. The point is that he will not collapse or be overthrown. It says nothing about his feelings.

Psalm 125:1 יִ֝מּ֗וֹט it will be shaken

A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

Here: 'It will (can) be shaken.' The verb is singular and masculine, so its subject is the mountain, not the plural 'those who trust'. This is the word for ground that sways in an earthquake or a foot that slips. Zion does not wobble on its foundations.

Psalm 140:10 יִמּ֥וֹטוּ may they be dropped

May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.

Here: 'May they be toppled down', with the coals as subject, pictured as dislodged and tumbling onto the enemies. This verb is used elsewhere of feet slipping, which the enemies had tried to make the psalmist do (v. 4). The written consonants allow 'let them bring down' (see textual notes).

Proverbs 10:30 יִמּ֑וֹט he will be shaken

The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

Here: 'He will be toppled / dislodged': the picture of a wall tottering, a foot slipping, a structure knocked off its foundation. The meaning is losing one's place and footing, not being upset in one's feelings.

Proverbs 12:3 יִמּֽוֹט׃ it is moved

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

Here: The verb means to wobble, slide or give way, as a foot slips, a wall leans or ground shakes. It is singular, so its subject is 'the root'. The root of the righteous will not so much as shift.

Proverbs 24:11 וּמָטִ֥ים and [those who] are staggering

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

Here: People whose feet are giving way: weak, tottering, unable to stand firm as they are moved toward the killing. The picture is physical helplessness, not moral failure.

Proverbs 25:26 מָ֣ט [who] sways

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

Isaiah 24:19 מ֥וֹט הִֽתְמוֹטְטָ֖ה certainly <to shake>, it has been shaken

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

Here: An emphasizing form of 'totter.' The verb is used for a foot slipping or a structure losing its footing, and it is the word the Psalms use when they say the earth God founded 'shall not be moved' (Ps 93:1; 104:5).

Isaiah 40:20 יִמּֽוֹט׃ it will be shaken

One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

Here: To wobble or topple. This is the climax of the verse: the craftsman's highest aim is that the god should not fall over. Psalms use the same verb for what can never happen to the world God has set firm (Ps 93:1; 96:10) or to the one God upholds (Ps 16:8).

Isaiah 41:7 יִמּֽוֹט׃ ס it will be shaken

The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

Isaiah 54:10 תְּמוּטֶ֑נָה תָמ֔וּט they will shake, it will shake

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Here: "Will totter": the hills lose their footing and sway, the word used for an earthquake or a stumbling foot. The same verb comes back for the covenant.