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Silence

σιγήStrong’s G4602

sigē

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Sigē is the Greek word usually translated “silence”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,”
Acts 21:40 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “silence”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • silence 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1
  • Revelation 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

σιγή sigē · silence

σιγή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX: Wis.18:14, 3Ma.3:23 * ;] silence: Act.21:40, Rev.8:1.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “silence” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SI'LENCE, noun

[Latin silentium, from sileo, to be still.]

  1. In a general sense, stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; as the silence of midnight.
  2. In animals, the state of holding the peace; forbearance of speech in man, or of noise in other animals. Psalms 39:2“I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good” Psalms 39:2
  3. Habitual taciturnity; opposed to loquacity.
  4. Secrecy.
All definitions and other forms of “silence”
  1. Stillness; calmness; quiet; cessation of rage, agitation or tumult; as the elements reduced to silence
  2. Absence of mention; oblivion, Eternal silence be their doom.
  3. silence in used elliptically for let there be silence an injunction to keep silence

SI'LENCE, verb transitive

  1. To oblige to hold the peace; to restrain from noise or speaking.
  2. To still; to quiet; to restrain; to appease.
  3. To stop; as, to silence complaints or clamor.
  4. To still; to cause to cease firing; as, to silence guns or a battery.
  5. To restrain from preaching by revoking a license to preach; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
  6. To put an end to; to cause to cease.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.