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ἤρεμος

ḗremos · G2263 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. quiet, peaceful

    Pertaining to a quiet, peaceful existence or attitude

    Examples

    1 Timothy 2:2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 1 word
ἡσύχιος hēsýchios · G2272 · quiet, peaceful
The target term and ἡσύχιος (“properly, keeping one's seat, sedentary; i.e. by implication, still, undisturbed, undisturbing”) share the sense of quiet, peacefulness, and stillness, functioning as near-interchangeable descriptors of peaceful quietness in New Testament usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Quiet, peaceful88.104
In 1 Timothy 2:2, prayer is urged for those in authority, “so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity,” using this word for a peaceful, undisturbed manner of life.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἤρεμον, quiet, tranquil: ἤρεμον καί ἡσύχιον βίον, 1 Tim 2:2. (Lucian, trag. 207;…
ἤρεμον, quiet, tranquil: ἤρεμον καί ἡσύχιον βίον, 1 Tim 2:2. (Lucian, trag. 207; Eustathius, Hesychius; comparative ἠρεμεστερος, from an unused ἠρεμης, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 63; more common in the earlier Greek writings is the adverb ἠρέμα. (Cf. Winers Grammar, § 11 at the end; Buttmann, 28 (24).))

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Peaceful Behavior1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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