Strong's #8252: shaqat (pronounced shaw-kat')

a primitive root; to repose (usually figurative):--appease, idleness, (at, be at, be in, give) quiet(-ness), (be at, be in, give, have, take) rest, settle, be still.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâqaṭ

1) to be quiet, be tranquil, be at peace, be quiet, rest, lie still, be undisturbed

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be quiet, be undisturbed

1a1a) to be at peace (of land)

1a2) to be quiet, be inactive

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to show quietness

1b1a) quietness, display of quietness (substantive)

1b2) to quiet, be quiet

1b3) to cause quietness, pacify, allay

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 41 times:

 

Joshua 11:23: "according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war."
Joshua 14:15: "man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war."
Judges 3:11: "And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."
Judges 3:30: "the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years."
Judges 5:31: "when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years."
Judges 8:28: "no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon."
Judges 18:7: "careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate"
Judges 18:27: "Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword,"
Ruth 3:18: "will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished"
2 Kings 11:20: "of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's"
1 Chronicles 4:40: "and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of"
2 Chronicles 14:1: "in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years."
2 Chronicles 14:5: "the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before"
2 Chronicles 14:6: "in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years;"
2 Chronicles 20:30: "So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about."
2 Chronicles 23:21: "of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword."
Job 3:13: "For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"
Job 3:26: "I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."
Job 34:29: "When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold"
Job 37:17: "How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south"
Psalms 76:8: "heaven; the earth feared, and was still,"
Psalms 83:1: "Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God."
Psalms 94:13: " That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked."
Proverbs 15:18: "strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife."
Isaiah 7:4: "And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted"
Isaiah 14:7: "The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing."
Isaiah 18:4: "the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat"
Isaiah 30:15: "In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would"
Isaiah 32:17: "peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever."
Isaiah 57:20: "sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire"
Isaiah 62:1: "will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness"
Jeremiah 30:10: "from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none"
Jeremiah 46:27: "from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none"
Jeremiah 47:6: "of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard,"
Jeremiah 47:7: "How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea"
Jeremiah 48:11: "hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not"
Jeremiah 49:23: "there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."
Ezekiel 16:42: "and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry."
Ezekiel 16:49: "fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen"
Ezekiel 38:11: "the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling"
Zechariah 1:11: "all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest."