| | Lexicon shathaq: to be quietOriginal Word: שָׁתַקPart of Speech: VerbTransliteration: shathaqPhonetic Spelling: (shaw-thak')Short Definition: calm NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Origin a prim. rootDefinition to be quietNASB Translation become calm (2), quiet (1), quiets down (1). 
Brown-Driver-Briggs   [שָׁתַק ]  verb be quiet  (late) (Late Hebrew id., be silent ; Aramaic שְׁתַק , שְׁתֵיק ,   be quiet, silent  (compare also שׁקט )); —  Qal Imperfect3masculine singular, of sea יִשְׁתֹּק הַיָּם Jonah 1:11,12 (followed by מֵעַל), of quarrel, strife Proverbs 26:30; 3masculine plural of persons at sea, יִשְׁתֹּ֑קוּ Psalm 107:30. 
 
 
 
Strong's be calm, cease, be quiet  A primitive root; to subside -- be calm, cease, be quiet.  | 
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