Bible Dictionary: Shock

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen.

2. (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

3. (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

4. (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.

5. (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

6. (n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

7. (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

8. (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

9. (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

10. (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

11. (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

12. (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

13. (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

14. (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Greek

4624. skandalizo -- to put a snare (in the way), hence to cause to ...
... Phonetic Spelling: (skan-dal-id'-zo) Short Definition: I cause to stumble Definition:
I cause to stumble, cause to sin, cause to become indignant, shock, offend ...
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1611. ekstasis -- a displacement (of the mind), ie bewilderment ...
... ek'-stas-is) Short Definition: bewilderment, amazement Definition: (properly:
distraction or disturbance of mind caused by shock), bewilderment, amazement; a ...
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1605. ekplesso -- to strike out, hence to strike with panic, to ...
... Transliteration: ekplesso Phonetic Spelling: (ek-place'-so) Short Definition: I
am thunderstruck, astounded Definition: I strike with panic or shock; I amaze ...
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4349. proskope -- an occasion of stumbling
... Feminine Transliteration: proskope Phonetic Spelling: (pros-kop-ay') Short Definition:
a cause of stumbling Definition: a cause of stumbling, offense, shock. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4637. maaratsah -- an awful shock, a crash
... 4636, 4637. maaratsah. 4638 . an awful shock, a crash. Transliteration: maaratsah
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-ar-aw-tsaw') Short Definition: crash. ...
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1430. gadiysh -- a heap, stack
... shock stack of corn, tomb From an unused root (meaning to heap up); a stack of sheaves;
by analogy, a tomb -- shock (stack) (of corn), tomb. 1429, 1430. ...
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Library

The Earthquake (Preached October 11, 1863. )
... A very slight shock"a shock only a little stronger than was felt last Wednesday
morning, might have"one hardly dare think of what it might have done in a ...
/.../the water of life and other sermons/sermon xv the earthquake preached.htm

Heralds of the Morning.
... In Africa the shock was almost as severe as in Europe. ... It was in Spain and
Portugal that the shock manifested its extreme violence. ...
/.../the great controversy between christ and satan /17 heralds of the morning.htm

Heralds of the Morning
... In Africa the shock was almost as severe as in Europe. ... It was in Spain and
Portugal that the shock manifested its extreme violence. ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 17 heralds of the.htm

Chapter twenty-four
... Mrs. Sterling had at first fainted at the shock, then rallied with a wonderful
swiftness and sent for Dr. Bruce. She had then insisted on seeing her husband. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter twenty-four.htm

A Strain of Jonah the Prophet.
... As, underneath, her spinal length of keel,. Staggered by shock on shock, all
palpitates; And, from on high, her labouring mass of yard. ...
/.../fathers of the third century tertullian appendix/1 a strain of jonah.htm

The Disciple, -- what is the Meaning and Purpose of the Cross...
... 4. Just as after a shock of earthquake springs of sweet water sometimes emerge in
desert places, and the arid wastes are irrigated and become fruitful, so in ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/singh/at the masters feet/section i the disciple 5.htm

Substitution
... But last Sabbath I brought you one shock of this wheat, in the fashion of Christ's
promise, which saith, "He that calleth on the name of the Lord, shall be ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/substitution.htm

The Rhythm of Life
... It meant that, though the bird had inherited the instinct for flight, he had not
inherited the capacity to stop, and if he had not risked the shock of a sudden ...
/.../peabody/mornings in the college chapel/vii the rhythm of life.htm

He Inveighs against Him Because Though He Has Forsaken the ...
... ruin. You think then that the faith of our salvation, and the mystery
of the Church's hope is a shock to your ears and hearing. ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter x he inveighs against.htm

On the Earthquake. September 8, 1775
... Before its Maker's look. Swift as the shock amazement spreads,. And sinners tremble
too; ... But mercy spared us while it warned,. The shock is felt no more; ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney hymns/hymn 68 on the earthquake.htm

Thesaurus

Shock (6 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. ...
11. (vi) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. 12. ...
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Earth-shock (11 Occurrences)
Earth-shock. Earth-shaking, Earth-shock. Earth-shocks . Multi-Version
Concordance Earth-shock (11 Occurrences). Matthew ...
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Jar (45 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden
shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith. ...
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Flames (54 Occurrences)
... of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his
house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a ...
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Parted (67 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV DBY WBS). Matthew 27:51 And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two
from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken; (BBE) ...
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Earthquake (17 Occurrences)
... The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many
thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. ...
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Shocked (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Shock. Multi-Version Concordance
Shocked (8 Occurrences). Matthew 15:12 Then His disciples ...
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Bases (80 Occurrences)
... (BBE DBY RSV NIV). 2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock;
the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry. (BBE). ...
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Shaking (162 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases
of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry. (BBE). ...
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Violent (151 Occurrences)
... BBE). Acts 16:26 when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake
that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the ...
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Bible Concordance

Shock (6 Occurrences)

Acts 16:26 when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the doors all flew open, and the chains fell off from every prisoner.
(WEY BBE)

2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
(BBE)

Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Job 30:14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
(BBE)

Psalms 18:7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 26:9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Shock

Related Terms

Earth-shock (11 Occurrences)

Jar (45 Occurrences)

Flames (54 Occurrences)

Parted (67 Occurrences)