Word

σιωπάω

siōpáō · G4623 · Greek · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

to keep quiet, to be silent

To refrain from speaking or talking

Examples
Matthew 20:31 But the crowd sternly warned them to be quiet; yet they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
Matthew 26:63 But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, “I place You under oath by the living God, to tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Mark 3:4 And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.
to not be able to speak

To lose or not have the ability to speak

Examples
Luke 1:20 “And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day when these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
to become calm, to become still

(A figurative extension of meaning of σιωπάω ‘to be silent,’) The process of becoming calm after a storm

Examples
Mark 4:39 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

10 occurrences in 7 groups

ὁthe (definite article) 3
Not stated: you (one person) 2
ἸησοῦςJesus 1
οὗτοςthis 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰμίto be 1
ἐπιτίθημιto lay on, to put on 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μήnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ἔπωto say 2
ἐπιτιμάωto rebuke 1

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.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

To become calm, to become still14.24: The verb describes the cessation of a storm's violence when commanded. Mark records, “He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Hush, be still.’ And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm” (Mark 4:39).
To keep quiet, to be silent33.117: The same verb also describes refraining from speech in response to a question. Mark records that when Jesus asked whether it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath, “they kept silent” (Mark 3:4).
To not be able to speak33.118: The same verb also describes Jesus' own deliberate refusal to answer under interrogation. Matthew records, “Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, ‘I place You under oath by the living God, to tell us whether You are the Christ’” (Matthew 26:63).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σιγή sigḗ · G4602 · silence · 2×σιγάω sigáō · G4601 · to keep quiet about, to say nothing about · 10×σιωπάωsiōpáō · G4623

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σιώπω; imperfect, 3 person singular ἐσιώπα, 3 person plural ἐσιώπων; future σιωπήσω (Lk…

σιώπω; imperfect, 3 person singular ἐσιώπα, 3 person plural ἐσιώπων; future σιωπήσω (Lk 19:40 L T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐσιώπησα; (σιωπή silence); from Homer down; to be silent, hold one's peace: properly, Mt 20:31; Mt 26:63; Mk 3:4; Mk 9:34; Mk 10:48; Mk 14:61; Lk 18:39 R G; ; Acts 18:9; used of one silent because dumb, Lk 1:20; Lk 1:4 Macc. 10:18; likesileo in the Latin poets, used metaphorically of a calm, quiet sea ((in rhetorical command)): Mk 4:39. (Synonym: see ἡσυχάζω.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Events Involving Liquids and Dry Masses1 occurrence Keep Silent10 occurrences

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