הָסָה
hâçâh · H2013 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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to be silent, to be quiet
Action by which humans stop talking
ExamplesJudges 3:19 But he himself turned back from the idols which were at Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And the king said, “Silence!” And all who were attending him left him.
Nehemiah 8:11 So the Levites silenced all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.”
Numbers 13:30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will certainly prevail over it.”
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּלֵבCaleb 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַםpeople 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 3
- אֵלto, toward+ מֹשֶׁהMoses 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- חָרַשׁ chârash · H2790 · to engrave (on stone), to carve (wood), to plow
- Both denote voluntarily refraining from speech—"hold peace," "be silent," "be quiet"—two distinct Hebrew words that can substitute for one another in the sense of choosing not to speak.
- מָנַע mânaʻ · H4513 · to withhold, to refuse, to hold back
- The pairing is real but modest. הָסָה (hâçâh, H2013) is specifically about silence/keeping quiet, while מָנַע (mânaʻ, H4513) is a broader withholding verb that can apply to speech but also to possessions, actions, birth, flow, etc. (evidenced by its 9 semantic domains). They overlap in the narrow context of restraining speech, but מָנַע (mânaʻ, H4513)'s primary sense is general restraint/withholding, making this a partial overlap rather than core synonymy.
- דָּמַם dâmam · H1826 · to stand still, to be still, to wait
- Both words describe cessation of speech or sound.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Speak002004001009004
- הָסָה is a command to be silent or hold one's peace, as Caleb quiets the people before Moses and the Levites hush the assembly on the holy day.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2013. has הָ֑ס הַס, interjection hush! keep silence (probably onomatopoetic) Jdg 3:19…
הָ֑ס הַס, interjection hush! keep silence (probably onomatopoetic) Jdg 3:19 and he said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king, הָ֔ס וַיּאֹמֶר and he said, Keep silence! Amo 6:10 הָ֔ס וְאָמַר (while burying men in a pestilence), Amo 8:3 (elliptical) in every place: הָֽס הִשְׁלִיךְ they cast them (the corpses) forth, (saying) Hysh ! followed by י מִמְּנֵי ׳(מִמָּנָיו) Hab 2:20; Zep 1:7; Zechariah 2:17. Inflected, as though a verb, imperative plural הַ֔סּוּ Neh 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 Num 13:30 and Caleb stilled the people.
הֲפֻגָה see below פוג.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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