Lexical Summary has: hush! keep silence! Original Word: הָסָהTransliteration: has Phonetic Spelling: (haw-saw') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: hush! keep silence! Meaning: hush! keep silence! Strong's Concordance hold peace tongue, keep silence, be silent, still A primitive root; to hush -- hold peace (tongue), (keep) silence, be silent, still. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2013. has הָ֑ס הַס, interjection hush! keep silence (probably onomatopoetic) Judges 3:19 and he said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king, הָ֔ס וַיּאֹמֶר and he said, Keep silence! Amos 6:10 הָ֔ס וְאָמַר (while burying men in a pestilence), 8:3 (elliptical) in every place: הָֽס הִשְׁלִיךְ they cast them (the corpses) forth, (saying) Hysh ! followed by י מִמְּנֵי ׳(מִמָּנָיו) 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. , : WAG i. § 368). Hence as denominative Hiph`il imperfect with apocope וַיַּ֫הַס Numbers 13:30 and Caleb stilled the people. הֲפֻגָה see below פוג. |
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