To silence
הַסStrong’s H2013hasah (ha-sah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hush” and “silenced”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.”
Meaning
- (Piel) hush, keep silence, be silent, hold peace, hold tongue, still
- (CLBL) to hush(Hiphil) to command to be silent
How it's translated
- hush 7
- and he silenced 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 2
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
- Zephaniah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 13:30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
- Judges 3:19But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
- Nehemiah 8:11So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
- Amos 6:10And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
- Amos 8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
- Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Hebrew dictionary
הַס hasah · to silence
interj 1) (Piel) hush, keep silence, be silent, hold peace, hold tongue, still v 2)(CLBL) to hush 2a) (Hiphil) to command to be 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.]
- 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.