Greek verb · G4623
σιωπάω
siopaosee-o-pah'-o
be quiet
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: siōpáō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4623is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4623
to be dumb (but not deaf also, like 2974 properly); figuratively, to be calm (as quiet water)
The King James renders it: dumb, (hold) peace.
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
siopao is rendered "be quiet". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 20:31The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
Matthew 20:31σιωπήσωσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
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
- he may be silent1
- He was silent1
- may be silent1
- Silence1
- silent1
- they may be silent1
- was silent1
- will be 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 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- ἐσιώπα2
- ἐσιώπων2
- σιώπα1
- σιωπήσῃ1
- σιωπήσῃς1
- σιωπήσουσιν1
- σιωπήσωσιν1
- σιωπῶν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IAI-3P
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-IAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AAS-2S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-AAS-3P
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-AAS-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FAI-3P
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person singular1V-PAM-2S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
Matthew
two uses
The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- σιωπήσωσινsiopesosinverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may be silent
But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”
- ἐσιώπαesiopaverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was silent
Mark
five uses
And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
- ἐσιώπωνesioponverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were silent
Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.
- σιώπαsiopaverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: Silence
But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest.
- ἐσιώπωνesioponverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were silent
Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
- σιωπήσῃsiopeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may be silent
But Jesus remained silent and made no reply. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”
- ἐσιώπαesiopaverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He was silent
Luke
two uses
And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
- σιωπῶνsioponverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: silent
“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”
- σιωπήσουσινsiopesousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will be silent
Acts
one use
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.
- σιωπήσῃςsiopesesverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: may be silent
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.