מוֹט môwṭ — to waver
Translated in the KJV as be carried, cast, be out of course, be fallen in decay, × exceedingly, fall, be moved, be ready, shake, slide, slip.
a primitive root; to waver; by implication, to slip, shake, fall.
môwṭ in each stem
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 23Perfect (qatal) 1
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive construct 3Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Hitpolel
Perfect (qatal) 1
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›