# H2814 חָשָׁה

חָשָׁה (châshâh), Strong’s H2814: to hush or keep quiet KJV: hold peace, keep silence, be silent, (be) still.. Occurs 16 times.

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*châshâh* — to hush or keep quiet

KJV: hold peace, keep silence, be silent, (be) still.

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָשָׁה] vb. be silent, inactive, still (chiefly poet. and late)
- Qal be silent
- Hiph.
- 1 exhibit silence, be silent
- 2 shew inactivity
- 3 causat. make still, quiet

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 18:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=9) — They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand…
- [1 Kings 22:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/22?v=3) — The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out…
- [2 Kings 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/2?v=3) — The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take…
- [2 Kings 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/2?v=5) — The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take…
- [2 Kings 7:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/7?v=9) — Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait…
- [Isaiah 42:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=14) — “I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I…
- [Isaiah 57:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=11) — “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I…
- [Isaiah 62:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/62?v=1) — For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out…
- [Isaiah 62:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/62?v=6) — I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the LORD, take…
- [Isaiah 64:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/64?v=11) — Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?