Greek verb · G2270
ἡσυχάζω
hesychazohay-soo-khad'-zo
be quiet/give up
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hēsycházō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2270is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2270
to keep still (intransitively), i.e. refrain from labor, meddlesomeness or speech
The King James renders it: cease, hold peace, be quiet, rest.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hesychazo is rendered "be quiet/give up". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 14:4But they remained silent. Then Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But they remained silent. Then Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
Luke 14:4ἡσύχασαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they were silent2
- they rested1
- to live quietly1
- we were silent1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἡσύχασαν3
- ἡσυχάζειν1
- ἡσυχάσαμεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-AAI-1P
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
Luke
two uses
But they remained silent. Then Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
- ἡσύχασανhesuchasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were silent
Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
- ἡσύχασανhesuchasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they rested
Acts
two uses
When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
- ἡσύχασανhesuchasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were silent
When he would not be dissuaded, we fell silent and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”
- ἡσυχάσαμενhesuchasamenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we were silent
1 Thessalonians
one use
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
- ἡσυχάζεινhesuchazeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to live quietly
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.