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Silence

אֵ֫לֶםStrong’s H0482

elem (e-lem)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Elem is the Hebrew word usually translated “silence”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?”
Psalms 58:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. In silence, silent
How it's translated
  • silence 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    אֵ֫לֶם elem · silence

    in silence, silent

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.