Lexical Summary
hésuchios: Quiet, tranquil, peaceful
Original Word: ἡσύχιος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hésuchios
Pronunciation: hay-SOO-khee-os
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-soo'-khee-os)
KJV: peaceable, quiet
NASB: quiet
Word Origin: [a prolonged form of a compound probably of a derivative of the base of G1476 (ἑδραῖος - steadfast) and perhaps G2192 (ἔχω - have)]
1. (properly) keeping one's seat (sedentary)
2. (by implication) still (undisturbed, undisturbing)
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
HELPS Word-studies
2272 hēsýios (an adjective derived from hēsyos, "quiet, stillness") – properly, quiet (still), i.e. steady (settled) due to a divinely-inspired inner calmness.
2272/hēsyios ("calmly quiet") describes being "appropriately tranquil" by not misusing (or overusing) words that would stir up needless friction (destructive commotion).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origina prol. form of hésuchos (still, quiet)
Definitiontranquil
NASB Translationquiet (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2272: ἡσύχιοςἡσύχιος,
ἡσυχία,
ἡσύχιον ((perhaps akin to
ἧμαι to sit, Latin
sedatus; 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.
