Strong's #2013: hacah (pronounced haw-saw')

a primitive root; to hush:--hold peace (tongue), (keep) silence, be silent, still.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

hâsâh

1) (Piel) hush, keep silence, be silent, hold peace, hold tongue, still (interjection)

2) (CLBL) to hush (verb)

2a) (Hiphil) to command to be silent

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Numbers 13:30: "And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once,"
Judges 3:19: "errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from"
Nehemiah 8:11: "all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither"
Amos 6:10: "thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name"
Amos 8:3: "in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence."
Habakkuk 2:20: "temple: let all the earth keep silence before"
Zephaniah 1:7: " Hold thy peace of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD"
Zechariah 2:13: " Be silent, flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up"