Hebrew

Silence

דּוּמָהStrong’s H1745

dumah (du-mah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dumah is the Hebrew word usually translated “silence”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.”

Meaning

How it's translated

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

Where it's used most

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

דּוּמָה dumah · silence

silence

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.]

In a general sense, stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; as the silence of midnight.
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
Habitual taciturnity; opposed to loquacity.
Secrecy.

All definitions and other forms of “silence”

Stillness; calmness; quiet; cessation of rage, agitation or tumult; as the elements reduced to silence
Absence of mention; oblivion, Eternal silence be their doom.
silence in used elliptically for let there be silence an injunction to keep silence

SI'LENCE, verb transitive

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