שָׁקַט
to be quiet
also: be tranquil, be at peace, be quiet, rest fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
See every Qal verb in the Hebrew Bible →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘of land’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘shew quietness’
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 verse where H8252 appears in the Hiphil stem in the Book of Psalms. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to be quiet” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb שקט (shâqaṭ). First canonically at Joshua 11:23, it enters the text early. It turns up in 41 verses across 13 books, a moderately common footprint. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 2 stems, among them Qal and Hiphil. From the same root come שקט. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8252 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 41
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 41 distinct verses.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #864
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 864 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 41 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 41 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 26 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 15 verses · 37%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Had rest 5×, Was quiet 4×, Be quiet 2×
- American Standard Version: Had rest 6×, Was quiet 6×, Quiet 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Had rest 6×, Quiet 5×, Was at peace 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was quiet 7×, Rested 6×, And 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8252 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8252 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8252 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8252 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְשׁ׳ Je 30:10; 46:27, 3 fs. שָֽׁקְטָה Jos 11:23 +, שָׁקָ֑טָה 2 K 11:20 +; 1 s. שָׁקַ֫טְתִּי Jb 3:26, וְשָׁקַטְתִּ֫י Ez 16:42; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁקֹט Ru 3:18; 2 fs. תְּשְׁקֹ֑טִי Je 47:6, 7; 1 s. אֶשְׁקוֹט Is 62:1; Jb 3:13, אשׁקוטה Is 18:4 Kt, Qr אֶשָׁקֳטָה (Ges§§ 10h, 48c); Pt. שֹׁקֵט Ju 18:7 +, fs. שֹׁקֶ֫טֶת 1 Ch 4:40, שֹׁקָ֑טֶת Zc 1:11; pl. הַשֹּׁקְטִים Ez 38:11;—be quiet, undisturbed: e.g. Jeremiah 30:10
- 1. of land, at peace, abs. Ju 3:11, 30; 5:31; 8:28; Is 14:7 (+ נָ֫חָה), 2 Ch 13:23; 14:5; + מִמִּלְחָמָה Jos 11:23; 14:15 (D?), cf. v 5 (P); וּשְׁלֵוָה וְשׁ׳ 1 Ch 4:40; of earth ψ 76:9 Zc 1:11 (ישֶׁבֶת ושׁ׳); abs. of city 2 K 11:20 = 2 Ch 23:21, kingdom 2 Ch 20:30, + לִפְנֵי pers. 14:4; of people, שׁ׳ וּבֹטֵחַ in peace and security Ju 18:7, 27, הַשֹּׁקְטִים ישְׁבֵי לָבֶ֑טַח Ez 38:11; + שַׁאֲנַן Je 30:10 = 46:27; of Moab, שַׁאֲנַן … וְשֹׁקִט אֶל־שְׁמָרָיו 48:11 undisturbed upon its less (fig. of wine); of Job, quiet in death Jb 3:13, be at rest (from apprehensions of evil) v 26 (+ שָׁלַוְתִּי, נָחְ֑תִּי). e.g. Judges 3:11
- 2. be quiet, inactive: of י׳ + וְאַבִּיטָה Is 18:4 I will be quiet and gaze, i.e. gaze as an inactive spectator, ψ 83:2 (‖ דמה, חרשׁ be silent); = be pacified Ez 16:42; of sword of י׳ Je 47:6, 7; of Boaz Ru 3:18 he will not be quiet until he has finished the matter; of prophet Is 62:1 (‖ חָשָׁה be silent). e.g. Isaiah 18:4
Hiphil
- Impf. 3 ms. יַשְׁקִיט Pr 15:18, יַשְׁקִט Jb 34:29; Imv. ms. הַשְׁקֵט Is 7:4; Inf. abs. חַשְׁקֵט Is 32:17 +; cstr. הַשְׁקִיט ψ 94:13, -קִט Jb 37:17, -קֵט Is 57:20; Je 49:23;— e.g. Proverbs 15:18
- 1. shew quietness (inner causat.), of men Is 7:4 (+ אַל־תִּירָא), of sea Is 57:20 = Je 49:23, earth Jb 37:17 (+ מִדָּרוֹם); hence Inf. abs. = subst., quietness, display of quietness Is 30:15, עֲבֹדַת הַצְּדָקָה הַשְׁקֵט וָבֶ֫טַח 32:17 the product of righteousness is quietness and security (Du CheHpt Marti del. הַצּ׳ as dittogr. from v a, read הַמִּשְׁפָּט for הַשְׁקֵט, and del. וָ: the product of justice is security); (presumptuous) security, שַׁלְוַת הַשְׁקֵט Ez 16:49 (of Sodom). e.g. Isaiah 7:4
- 2. cause quietness: subj. י׳ Jb 34:29, לְהַשְׁקִיט לוֹ מִימֵי רָ֑ע ψ 94:13; pacify, allay, obj. רִיב Pr 15:18. e.g. Job 34:29
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. be quiet, undisturbed (𝔗 שְׁקַט (rare); NH שׁקט is sink down; Arabic سَقَطَ is drop down);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁקַט I
- to cut off, shorten, v. שָׁקוּט.
שָׁקַט II
- (b. h.) to settle, be at rest, at ease. Sabb. 88ᵃ למה שָׁקְטָה, v. יָרֵא; Ab. Zar. 3ᵃ; Yalk. Ps. 811. Yalk. Hab. 563 ש׳ העולם the world remained undisturbed; Tanḥ. ed. Bub., Sh’mini 10 שקטה הארץ; a. e.
- 1. to be quiet, careless (cmp. שָׁלֵו). Gen. R. s. 36, beg. (ref. to Job XXXIV, 29) והוא יַשְׁקִיט מעולמו and he (the Lord) is unconcerned about his world; Lev. R. s. 5 (not בעולמו). e.g. Job 34:29
- 2. to give rest, ease. Gitt. 31ᵇ (ref. to Job XXXVII, 17) אימתי … בשעה שה׳ וכ׳ (Rashi בשׁמַשְׁקִיט) when are thy clothes warm? When he makes the world rest from the south (when the south wind abates); Yalk. Job 922.—[Tosef. Erub. IX (VI), 26 המשקטין Var., v. קָשַׁט.] e.g. Job 37:17
שְׁקַט
- Targ. Jud. XVIII, 7; 27. Targ. Ex. XXIII, 12 (h. text וינפש). Targ. Jer. XXX, 10; a. fr.
- to give rest. Targ. Is. LXII, 1.
שֶׁקֶט
- preced.) rest, ease. Snh. VIII, 5 ש׳ לרשעים וכ׳ the ease of the wicked is bad for them and bad for the world.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 33 distinct written forms H8252 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8252, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 38 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 41 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Joshua 11:23
- Judges 3:11
- Ruth 3:18
- 2 Kings 11:20
- 1 Chronicles 4:40
- 2 Chronicles 14:1
- Job 3:13
- Psalms 76:8
- Proverbs 15:18
- Isaiah 7:4
- Jeremiah 30:10
- Ezekiel 16:42
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
