Hebrew verb · H2814
חָשָׁה
chashahkhaw-shaw'
be silent
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châshâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2814is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2814
to hush or keep quiet
The King James renders it: hold peace, keep silence, be silent, (be) still.
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
chashah is rendered "be silent". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 18:9They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
Judges 18:9מַחְשִׁ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old 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
- be silent2
- I will be silent2
- inactive2
- silent2
- and they were still1
- I have been silent1
- I was silent1
- making quiet1
- they will be silent1
- to be silent1
- will you be silent1
- you should 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.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- הֶחֱשֽׁוּ׃2
- מַחְשִׁ֔ים2
- אֶחֱשֶׂה֙1
- אֶחֱשֶׁ֔ה1
- הֶחֱשֵׁ֣יתִי1
- הֶחֱשֵׁ֙יתִי֙1
- וַ֝יֶּחֱשׁ֗וּ1
- יֶחֱשׁ֑וּ1
- לַחֲשׁ֖וֹת1
- מַחְשֶׁה֙1
- מַחְשִׁ֗ים1
- מַחְשִׁ֤ים1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural4HVhrmpa
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVhp1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVhv2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
Judges
one use
They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
- מַחְשִׁ֔יםmachshimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: inactive
1 Kings
one use
who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”
- מַחְשִׁ֔יםmachshimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: inactive
2 Kings
three uses
Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
- הֶחֱשֽׁוּ׃hecheshuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be silent
Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
- הֶחֱשֽׁוּ׃hecheshuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be silent
Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
- מַחְשִׁ֗יםmachshimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: silent
Nehemiah
one use
And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”
- מַחְשִׁ֤יםmachshimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making quiet
Psalms
three uses
To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
- תֶּֽחֱשֶׁ֥הtecheshehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should be silent
I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
- הֶחֱשֵׁ֣יתִיhechesheitiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was silent
He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
- וַ֝יֶּחֱשׁ֗וּvaiyecheshuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were still
Ecclesiastes
one use
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
- לַחֲשׁ֖וֹתlachashotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be silent
Isaiah
six uses
“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
- הֶחֱשֵׁ֙יתִי֙hechesheitiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been silent
Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?
- מַחְשֶׁה֙machshehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: silent
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
- אֶחֱשֶׁ֔הʾecheshehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will be silent
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- יֶחֱשׁ֑וּyecheshuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be silent
After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
- תֶּחֱשֶׁ֥הtecheshehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you be silent
Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
- אֶחֱשֶׂה֙ʾechesehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.