Lexical Definition

‎שָׁמַט‎ shâmaṭ (shaw-mat') to release ^H:V
a primitive root

discontinue, overthrow, release, let rest, shake, stumble, throw down.

• to fling down
• incipiently to jostle
• figuratively, to let alone, desist, remit

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

See Greek: ἄφεσις · ἀφίημι · ἐκκλίνω · καταπίνω · κυλιόω · περισπάω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שָׁמַט‎] verb let drop (Late Hebrew id., loosen, detach, draw away, Niph`al slip off; Aramaic ‎שְׁמַטּ‎ loosen, pull away; draw sword, draw or pull away; Arabic ; is hang, suspend, II. release debtor (Kam), string of pearls); —

Qal let drop, fall: Imperative masculine plural suffix + Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎וַיִּשְׁמְטוּהָ‎ (final ‎ו‎ dittograph) ‎שִׁמְטוּהָו‎ 2Kgs 9:33 he said, Let her fall, and they let her fall; then figurative, of letting land rest in seventh year:, 2 masculine singular suffix: ‎תִּשְׁמְטֶנָּה‎ Exod 23:11 (E); Perfect 2 masculine singular ‎וְשָׁמַטְתָּ֫ה‎> Jer 17:4 thou shalt let drop thy hand (read ‎יָָֽרְךָ‎ for ‎וּבְךְ‎ JDMich and modern) from (‎מִן‎) thine inheritance, i.e. abandon it; Infinitive abs. ‎שָׁמוֺט‎ Deut 15:2 let fall (a debt in seventh year; see ‎מַשֶּׁה‎ b). — Perfect 3 plural ‎שָֽׁמְטוּ הַבָּקָר‎ 2Sam 6:6= 1Chr 13:9 is dubious, most naturally either they let the oxen fall (slip, stumble), or (as Targan) the oxen let it fall (reading ‎שְׁמָטוֺ‎, that is, the ark); > Thes the oxen ran away; ᵑ6 slipped (the yoke)? see further Dr. Niph`al Perfect 3 plural ‎נִשְׁמְטוּ‎ Ps 141:6 their judges have been thrown down. Hiph`il 2 masculine singular (?) jussive (?) ‎תַּשְׁמֵט‎ Deut 15:3 thou, shalt cause thy hand to let drop, etc.; Ba^{NB 147} Qal; < read ‎תִּשְׁמֹט‎ (compare Dr), ‎יָרֶ֑ךָ‎: subject

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