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# שָׁתַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8367

**be quiet** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be quiet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8367/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁתַק: vb. be quiet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8367/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be quiet (late) (NH id., be silent; Aramaic שְׁתַק, שְׁתֵיק, ܫܬܶܩ be quiet, silent (cf. also שׁקט));— Impf. 3 ms., of sea יִשְׁתֹּק הַיָּם Jon 1:11, 12 (sq. מֵעַל), of quarrel, strife Pr 26:20; 3 mpl. of persons at sea, יִשְׁתֹּ֑קוּ ψ 107:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it becomes quiet (1); it will be quiet (1); that it will be quiet (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.30/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂמְח֥וּ כִֽי־יִשְׁתֹּ֑קוּ וַ֝יַּנְחֵ֗ם אֶל־מְח֥וֹז חֶפְצָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.rejoiced (dm) they.were.quiet and he guided.them to the.harbor their.desire their

*JPS 1917:* Then were they glad because they were quiet, and He led them unto their desired haven.

[Proverbs 26:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.20/#tree)

בְּאֶ֣פֶס עֵ֭צִים תִּכְבֶּה־אֵ֑שׁ וּבְאֵ֥ין נִ֝רְגָּ֗ן יִשְׁתֹּ֥ק מָדֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* with not wood(s) it.is.extinguished a.fire and when there.\[is\].not a.slanderer it.becomes.quiet strife

*JPS 1917:* Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8367.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8367/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).