מוֹט môwṭ — a wavering, i.e. fall
Translated in the KJV as bar, be moved, staff, yoke.
from H4131; a wavering, i.e. fall; by implication, a pole (as shaking); hence, a yoke (as essentially a bent pole).
môwṭ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 2
לַמּ֣וֹט Ps 66:9 Infinitive construct
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
לַמּ֣וֹט Ps 121:3 Infinitive construct
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
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 ›