Lexicon has: hush! keep silence! Original Word: הָסָהPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: has Phonetic Spelling: (haw-saw') Short Definition: silent NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. interj. Definitionhush! keep silence! NASB Translationkeep quiet (1), keep silence (1), quieted (1), silence (1), silent (3), still (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs הַס, הָ֑ס interjection hush! keep silence (probably onomatopoetic) Judges 3:19 and he said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king, וַיּאֹמֶר הָ֔ס and he said, Keep silence! Amos 6:10 וְאָמַר הָ֔ס (while burying men in a pestilence), Amos 8:3 (elliptical) in every place: הִשְׁלִיךְ הָֽס they cast them (the corpses) forth, (saying) Hysh ! followed by ׳(מִמָּנָיו) מִמְּנֵי י Habakkuk 2:20; Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 2:17. Inflected, as though a verb, imperative plural הַ֔סּוּ Nehemiah 8:11 (Ges compares Arabic  [= הֲלֹם] hither! inflected as an imperative, e.g.  ,  : W AG i. § 368). Hence as denominative Hiph`il imperfect with apocope וַיַּ֫הַס Numbers 13:30 and Caleb stilled the people. הֲפֻגָה see below פוג.
Strong's hold peace tongue, keep silence, be silent, still A primitive root; to hush -- hold peace (tongue), (keep) silence, be silent, still. |
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