Lexicon hésuchios: tranquil Original Word: ἡσύχιος, α, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hésuchios Phonetic Spelling: (hay-soo'-khee-os) Short Definition: quiet, tranquil Definition: quiet, tranquil, peaceful. HELPS word-Studies 2272 hēsýxios (an adjective derived from hēsyxos, "quiet, stillness") – properly, quiet (still), i.e. steady (settled) due to a divinely-inspired inner calmness. 2272/hēsyxios ("calmly quiet") describes being "appropriately tranquil" by not misusing (or overusing) words that would stir up needless friction (destructive commotion). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prol. form of hésuchos (still, quiet) Definitiontranquil NASB Translationquiet (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2272: ἡσύχιοςἡσύχιος, ἡσυχία, ἡσύχιον ((perhaps akin to ἧμαι to sit, Latin sedatus; cf. Curtius, § 568; Vanicek, p. 77)); from Homer down; quiet, tranquil: 1 Peter 3:4; βίος, 1 Timothy 2:2; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1.
Strong's peaceable, quiet. A prolonged form of a compound probably of a derivative of the base of hedraios and perhaps echo; properly, keeping one's seat (sedentary), i.e. (by implication) still (undisturbed, undisturbing) -- peaceable, quiet. see GREEK hedraios see GREEK echo |
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