Original Word: ἡσύχιος, α, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hésuchios
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-soo'-khee-os)
Definition: tranquil
Usage: quiet, tranquil, peaceful.

2272 hēsýxios (an adjective derived from hēsyxos, "quiet, stillness") – properly, quiet (still), i.e. steady (settled) due to a divinely-inspired inner calmness.

2272/hēsyxios ("calmly quiet") describes being "appropriately tranquil" by not misusing (or overusing) words that would stir up needless friction (destructive commotion).

Word Origin
a prol. form of hésuchos (still, quiet)
Definition
tranquil
NASB Translation
quiet (2).

STRONGS NT 2272: ἡσύχιος

ἡσύχιος, ἡσυχία, ἡσύχιον ((perhaps akin to ἧμαι to sit, Latinsedatus; cf. Curtius, § 568; Vanicek, p. 77)); from Homer down; quiet, tranquil: 1 Peter 3:4; βίος, 1 Timothy 2:2; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

peaceable, quiet.

A prolonged form of a compound probably of a derivative of the base of hedraios and perhaps echo; properly, keeping one's seat (sedentary), i.e. (by implication) still (undisturbed, undisturbing) -- peaceable, quiet.

see GREEK hedraios

see GREEK echo

Forms and Transliterations

ησυχιον ησύχιον ἡσύχιον ησυχιου ησυχίου ἡσυχίου πραέως esuchion ēsuchion hesychion hesýchion hēsychion hēsýchion praeos praeōs praéos praéōs

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