Strong’s G2271 · Greek
ἡσυχία
hēsychía · hay-soo-khee'-ah
Origin feminine of ἡσύχιος (G2272);
Meaning (as noun) stillness, i.e. desistance from bustle or language
In the King James Version quietness, silence.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 22:2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
- 2 Thessalonians 3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
- 1 Timothy 2:11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
- 1 Timothy 2:12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.