Lexical Summary hēsychia: stillness Original Word: ἡσυχίαTransliteration: hēsychia Phonetic Spelling: (hay-soo-khee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: stillness Meaning: stillness Strong's Concordance quietness, silence. Feminine of hesuchios; (as noun) stillness, i.e. Desistance from bustle or language -- quietness, silence. see GREEK hesuchios Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2271: ἡσυχίαἡσυχία, 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 |