Original Word: ἡσυχία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: hésuchia
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-soo-khee'-ah)
Short Definition: quietness, silence
Definition: quietness, stillness, silence.

Cognate: 2271 hēsyxía (from hēsyxos, "quiet, stillness") – quietness, implying calm; for the believer, 2271 (hēsyxía) is used of their God-produced calm which includes an inner tranquility that supports appropriate action. This term "does not mean speechlessness, which is more directly indicated by 4602 (sigḗ) (J. Thayer). See 2272 (hēsyxios).

STRONGS NT 2271: ἡσυχία

ἡσυχία, ἡσυχίας, ἡ (from the adjective ἡσύχιος, which see; the feminine expresses the general notion (Winers Grammar, 95 (90)), cf. αἰτία, ἀρετή, ἔχθρα, etc.) (from Homer down);

1. quietness: descriptive of the life of one who stays at home doing his own work, and does not officiously meddle with the affairs of others, 2 Thessalonians 3:12.

2. silence: Acts 22:2; 1 Timothy 2:11f

quietness, silence.

Feminine of hesuchios; (as noun) stillness, i.e. Desistance from bustle or language -- quietness, silence.

see GREEK hesuchios

ησυχια ησυχία ἡσυχίᾳ ησυχιαν ησυχίαν ἡσυχίαν ησυχιας ησυχίας ἡσυχίας esuchia ēsuchia esuchian ēsuchian esuchias ēsuchias hesychia hēsychia hesychíāi hēsychíāi hesychian hesychían hēsychian hēsychían hesychias hesychías hēsychias hēsychíasInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts