Strong’s G2687 · Greek
καταστέλλω
katastéllō · kat-as-tel'-lo
Origin from κατά (G2596) and στέλλω (G4724);
Meaning to put down, i.e. quell
In the King James Version appease, quiet.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 19:35And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
- Acts 19:36Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
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.