שָׁתַקshâthaq
be quiet
Pronunciation: shaw-thak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8367
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Psalms 107:30 What a blessing was that stillness as he brought them safely into harbor!
- Proverbs 26:20 Fire goes out without wood, and quarrels disappear when gossip stops.
- Jonah 1:11 And since the storm was getting worse all the time, they asked him, “What should we do to you to stop this storm?”
- Jonah 1:12 “Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).