חָשָׁה châshâh — to hush or keep quiet
Translated in the KJV as hold peace, keep silence, be silent, still.
a primitive root; to hush or keep quiet.
châshâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 5Imperative 2Perfect (qatal) 2
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth–el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›