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Strong's #2814: chashah (pronounced khaw-shaw')

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




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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châshâh

1) to be silent, quiet, still, inactive

1a) (Qal) to be silent, be still

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to be silent, exhibit silence

1b2) to show inactivity, be inactive

1b3) to make silent, make quiet, cause to be still

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

Judges 18:9: "it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter"
1 Kings 22:3: "ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand"
2 Kings 2:3: "And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace."
2 Kings 2:5: "And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace."
2 Kings 7:9: "is a day of good tidings, hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light,"
Nehemiah 8:11: "So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day"
Psalms 39:2: "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred."
Psalms 107:29: "the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still."
Ecclesiastes 3:7: "and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
Isaiah 42:14: "I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy"
Isaiah 57:11: "thy heart? have not held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?"
Isaiah 62:1: "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,"
Isaiah 62:6: "thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention"
Isaiah 64:12: "for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?"
Isaiah 65:6: "it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense"









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