Quiet
דֳּמִיStrong’s H1824demi (de-mi)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Demi is the Hebrew word usually translated “rest”, “silence” and “half of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.”
Meaning
- Cessation, quiet, rest, silence, pause, peacefulness
How it's translated
- rest 2
- silence 1
- in half of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
- Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
- Isaiah 62:7And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Hebrew dictionary
דֳּמִי demi · quiet
cessation, quiet, rest, silence, pause, peacefulness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quiet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUI'ET, adjective
[Latin quietus.]
- Still; being in a state of rest; now moving. Judges 16:2
- Still; free from alarm or disturbance; unmolested; as a quiet life.“In his days the land was quiet ten years” 2 Chronicles 14:1
- Peaceable; not turbulent; not giving offense; not exciting controversy, disorder or trouble; mild; meek; contented.“The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit” 1 Peter 3:4
- Calm; not agitated by wind; as a quiet sea or atmosphere.
All definitions and other forms of “quiet”
- Smooth; unruffled.
- Undisturbed; unmolested; as the quiet possession or enjoyment of an estate.
- Not crying; not restless; as a quiet child.
QUI'ET, noun
[Latin quies.]
- Rest; repose; stillness; the state of a thing not in motion.
- Tranquility; freedom from disturbance or alarm; civil or political repose.
- Peace; security. Judges 18:7
QUI'ET, verb transitive
- To stop motion; to still; to reduce to a state of rest; as, to quiet corporeal motion.
- To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to tranquilize; as, to quiet the soul when agitated; to quiet the passions; to quiet the clamors of a nation; to quiet the disorders of a city or town.
- To allay; to suppress; as, to quiet pain or grief.
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.